French AI startup Mistral AI is a sought-after company in the technology sector. After Capgemini, Microsoft and Snowflake, Databricks is now courting Mistral.

Databricks announces a partnership with France’s Mistral AI. This is a technology collaboration, but Databricks will also invest an undisclosed amount in Mistral AI. Mistral AI’s two LLMs, Mistral 7B and Mistral 8x7B, will be added to the Databricks catalog and Mosaic AI Playground.

Mistral AI is a company from France that first attracted attention last summer. The company is one of the pioneers in the area of ​​open source LLMs, which means that it generally makes its technologies available free of charge and openly. Databricks customers can now tinker with these models without worrying about security, privacy, or governance.

Mistral AI has two models on offer. The Mistral 7B model is a relatively “small” model with seven trillion parameters. Databricks praises the model, calling it “a small but powerful model that is very easy to use.” Mistral 8x7B is larger with 46.7 trillion parameters and speaks English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The French company also recently launched a full-fledged alternative to ChatGPT called “ChatGPT”. The cat.

Desired

Databricks is not the first and only tech industry company to seek Mistral AI’s hand. Capgemini, Snowflake and Microsoft previously courted the young startup. The European Commission doesn’t like Microsoft’s interference. Mistral AI is a key player for the European tech sector and Europe is hoping to prevent the company from falling into the hands of an American tech giant like Microsoft. Microsoft also flirted with Databricks for a while.