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Microsoft’s Mistral deal beefs up Azure without spurning OpenAI
Microsoft puts focus on model garden after Mistral deal.
Arun Chandrasekaran, an analyst at Gartner, tells The Verge the deal emphasizes the managed services business of AI, one in which Azure can play a role. After the European Union’s AI Act passed, French president Emmanuel Macron blasted the new rules, saying it hampered innovation from companies like Mistral. Microsoft even hinted at what these plans could be like, saying it would bring global expansion opportunities and allow them to “explore collaboration around training purpose-specific models for select customers, including European public sector workloads.”
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