Billions of dollars! Microsoft finalizes computing power cooperation with large model unicorn

Compiled by Zhidongzhi | Editor by Eggplant | Cheng Qian Zhidongzhi reported on July 22 that last night, Microsoft and the French large model unicorn Mistral AI announced a multi-billion dollar cooperation. Mistral AI plans to deploy thousands of the latest Vera Rubin GPUs to provide computing power support for Microsoft. ▲Microsoft and Mistral AI officially announced their cooperation. The picture on the left is Microsoft news, and the picture on the right is Mistral AI official X (Source: Microsoft, The company was co-founded by former Meta FAIR Laboratory and Google DeepMind researchers. Among the three founders, Chief Scientist Guillaume Lample and CTO Timothée Lacroix were deeply involved in the development of the open source large model Llama during their tenure at Meta; CEO Arthur Mensch previously worked at Google DeepMind. Since its establishment, Mistral AI has launched a variety of AI models including Mistral Medium 3.5 and Mistral OCR 4, covering scenarios such as general language understanding, image analysis, and document processing. According to disclosures from both parties, a focus of this cooperation is to expand European AI computing resources. Mistral AI plans to deploy thousands of the latest Vera Rubin GPUs to increase computing power. Microsoft will use relevant computing power for AI development and cloud services. At the same time, Mistral AI’s latest models, Mistral Medium 3.5 and Mistral OCR 4, will be connected to the developer platform Microsoft Foundry. Mistral Medium 3.5 will also support users of the enterprise-level AI intelligent agent Copilot Studio. this