Overview

• Mistral AI, a European AI solutions provider, has partnered with Google Cloud to distribute and commercialize its large language models (LLMs), making generative AI more accessible to developers and businesses worldwide.
• Mistral AI's 7B open LLM has been integrated into Google's Vertex AI Model Garden, enabling easy deployment on any existing cloud infrastructure.
• Mistral AI recently raised $415 million in a funding round, valuing the 7-month-old company at around $2 billion.
• The company has launched Mixtral 8x7B, an open-source model that matches the quality of GPT-3.5 on some benchmarks despite its smaller size.
• Mistral AI plans to make its new mixture-of-expert model available on the Google Cloud Marketplace in the future, enhancing its go-to-market strategy.