Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI

Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI This article was authored by Tim Warren for The Verge. Microsoft has announced a new multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup that’s valued at €2 billion (about $2.1 billion). The Financial Times reports that the partnership will include Microsoft taking a minor stake in the 10-month-old AI company, just […]

OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model

Microsoft announced that it would begin exclusively licensing GPT-3, the world’s largest language model, built by San Francisco–based OpenAI. The model acts like a powerful autocomplete: it can generate essays given the starting sentence, songs given a musical intro, or even web page layouts given a few lines of HTML code. Microsoft says it will […]