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Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure
Mistral AI partners with Nvidia to launch European AI infrastructure platform, challenging US cloud giants while unveiling breakthrough reasoning models that rival OpenAI.
Most notably, Magistral Medium retained multimodal reasoning abilities — the capacity to analyze images — even though the training process focused solely on text-based mathematical and coding problems. “Something we realized, not exactly by mistake, but something we absolutely did not expect, is that if at the end of the reinforcement learning training, you plug back the initial vision encoder, then you suddenly, kind of out of nowhere, see the model being able to do reasoning over images,” Lample said. The Mistral Compute platform will run on 18,000 of Nvidia’s newest Grace Blackwell chips, housed initially in a data center in Essonne, France, with plans for expansion across Europe.
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