French AI company Mistral has launched the chatbot Le Chat. Mistral has reached a partnership agreement with Microsoft. Le Chat is currently in open beta testing and offers both free and paid versions. Mistral becomes the second company to provide commercial language models on the Microsoft Azure platform.

French AI company Mistral receives investment from Microsoft and launches the chatbot Le Chat to challenge ChatGPT. Le Chat is currently in open beta testing. Mistral offers both free and paid versions. Microsoft has reached a cooperation agreement with Mistral, making it the second company to provide commercial language models on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Mistral is valued at approximately 2 billion euros, with Microsoft investing at least 13 billion USD in OpenAI.