Google Cloud Partners with Mistral AI to Boost Vertex AI with Codestral Code Generation

To improve its Vertex AI platform, Google Cloud is collaborating with Mistral AI, a French AI startup, to include Mistral’s Codestral code generation methodology into its cloud-based AI service.

According to a Reuters story that cited the company’s official statement, “Today, we’re announcing that Google Cloud is the first hyper scaler to introduce Codestral — Mistral AI’s first open-weight generative AI model explicitly designed for code generation tasks — as a fully-managed service.”

“These additions continue Google Cloud’s commitment to open and flexible AI ecosystems that help you build solutions best suited to your needs,” the statement continued.

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Mistral AI: What Is It?

Founded in 2023 by former Google Deep Mind and Meta AI experts, Mistral AI is a Paris-based firm. More than one billion euros have been raised in fundraising thus far.

Similar to Google, BNP Paribas, a major French bank, has teamed up with Mistral AI to leverage its language models in various business domains, including sales, IT, and customer service.

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What do Google and Mistral AI stand to gain from this partnership?

The collaboration emphasizes how crucial artificial intelligence is to cloud computing and software development.

Analysts mentioned in a Reuters story stated that Mistral AI is increasingly being seen as a rival to Microsoft-backed OpenAI.

As a result, Google is the first significant cloud provider to make Codestral available to its users. The alliance seeks to make Mistral AI’s code generator available to developers as a tool for automating code writing and increasing development productivity.

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