French startup Mistral AI, a rising star in artificial intelligence, pledged Tuesday to maintain open source coding even as it launches into a venture with Microsoft that involves selling some of its software.
The launch of ChatGPT and other American models set off a rush by European companies to make up for their delay. Photo: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP/Filehas sued ChatGPT creator OpenAI -- which also has ties to Microsoft -- accusing the firm of breaking its original non-profit mission to make AI research available to all.
"The goal is not to abandon open source," she said."This technology is revolutionary and we have to be transparent -- we must enableThe French company, valued at about $2 billion according to some financial players, presented a third generation of its language model"Mistral Large" in late February and said it was entering into a partnership with Microsoft.
"Commercial activity will enable us to finance the costly research needed to develop new models," he said."We will continue to work on both tracks." The launch of ChatGPT and other American models set off a rush by European companies to make up for their delay.