Che Mistral abbia venduto una quota a Microsoft io però non l'ho letto da nessuna parte. Da quello che si capisce, Mistral Large sarà disponibile su Azure, forse perché le alternative non erano molte e non erano meglio. Che questo modello GPT-4-like non sia 'open' mi pare altrettanto ineluttabile: chi potrebbe scaricarselo? E dove? E perché?
La cosa importante è che vi siano modelli aperti di dimensioni trattabili che siano abbastanza buoni da consentire ad aziende e enti pubblici di usare l'AI generativa in modo efficace e autonomo sulle proprie infrastrutture, senza cadere sotto il dominio del monopolista di turno. Questa è la frontiera che l'EU dovrebbe difendere. G. On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 23:03, Daniela Tafani <daniela.taf...@unipi.it> wrote: > Microsoft and Mistral AI announce new partnership to accelerate AI > innovation and introduce Mistral Large first on Azure > By Eric Boyd, Corporate Vice President, Azure AI Platform, Microsoft > > https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-announce-new-partnership-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-and-introduce-mistral-large-first-on-azure/ > ----- > Il commento di Luca Bertuzzi: > This is a mind-blowing announcement. Mistral AI, the French company that > has been fighting tooth and nail to water down the #AIAct's foundation > model rules, is partnering up with Microsoft. So much for 'give us a > fighting chance against Big Tech'. > The first question that comes to mind is: was this deal in the making > while the AI Act was being negotiated? That would mean Mistral discussed > selling a minority stake to Microsoft while playing the 'European champion' > card with the EU and French institutions. If so, this whole thing might be > a masterclass in astroturfing, and it seems unrealistic for a partnership > like this to be finalised in less than a month. Many people involved in > the AI Act noted how Big Tech's lobbying on GPAI suddenly went quiet toward > the end. > That is because they did not need to intervene since Mistral was doing the > 'dirty work' for them. Remarkably, Mistral's talking points were extremely > similar to those of Big Tech rather than those of a small AI start-up, > based on their ambition to reach that scale. > The other question is how much the French government knew about this > upcoming partnership with Microsoft. It seems unlikely Paris was kept > completely in the dark, but cosying up with Big Tech does not really sit > well with France's strive for 'strategic autonomy'. Especially since the > agreement includes making Mistral's large language model available on > Microsoft's Azure AI platform, while France has been pushing for an EU > cybersecurity scheme to exclude American hyperscalers from the European > market. > Still today, and I doubt it is a coincidence, Mistral has announced the > launch of Large, a new language model intended to compete directly with > OpenAI's GPT-4. However, unlike previous models, Large will not be open > source. In other words, Mistral is no longer (just) a European leader and > is backtracking on its much-celebrated open source approach. Where does > this leave the start-up vis-à-vis EU policymakers as the AI Act's > enforcement approaches? My guess is that someone will inevitably feel > played. > > https://twitter.com/BertuzLuca/status/1762197130616209765 > oppure > > https://www.linkedin.com/posts/luca-bertuzzi-186729130_introducing-mistral-large-on-azure-in-partnership-activity-7167962807827611649-fG3e > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa@server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >
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