[维维安]Snowflake 与 Mistral AI 合作，开放式法学硕士引入数据云

今天，数据云巨头 Snowflake 宣布与总部位于巴黎的人工智能初创公司 Mistral 签署了一份多年期协议，该初创公司于 2023 年 6 月筹集了欧洲有史以来最大的种子轮融资，自此成为全球人工智能领域的后起之秀。

Snowflake 表示，根据合作伙伴关系，它计划将 Mistral 构建的所有开放大型语言模型纳入其数据云，使它们直接可供希望构建 LLM 应用程序的客户使用。

该公司还证实，正在通过其企业风险投资部门投资这家成立九个月的初创公司。

但具体金额尚未透露。

这笔交易标志着对 Mistral 的又一次重大信任投票，该公司一直通过与大型科技巨头合作积极向前发展。

该公司还一直在快速扩展其模型阵容，其最新的 Mistral Large 模型的性能可与 OpenAI、Anthropic 和 Google 的产品相媲美。

对 Snowflake-Mistral 交易有何期待？

自成立以来，Snowflake 一直专注于构建企业选择的数据基础设施（现在称为数据云），并支持广泛的下游用例，包括人工智能和分析。

该公司不断改进其产品以满足客户不断增长的需求。

因此，当客户需要一个解决方案来使用平台上存储的数据开发生成式人工智能应用程序时，它推出了 Cortex，这是一项专为构建 LLM 应用程序而定制的完全托管服务。

在去年的 Snowday 活动期间宣布，Snowflake Cortex 为使用数据云的企业提供了一套 AI 构建模块（包括开源法学硕士），以分析平台上的数据（通过 Snowflake 的安全性、隐私性和治理）并构建针对特定目标的应用程序不同的特定于业务的用例。

该公司从法学硕士开始，负责专门的任务，如情感分析、翻译和摘要，以及 Meta 流行的 Llama 2。

现在，通过与 Mistral AI 的合作和投资，该公司正在 Cortex 中添加另一个开放且高性能的模型系列，用于法学硕士应用程序开发。

这不仅包括全新的 Mistral Large（其性能仅次于 GPT-4，其性能优于 Claude 2、Gemini Pro 和 GPT 3.5，具有跨五种语言的原生能力和 32K 令牌的上下文窗口），还包括 Mixtral 8x7B 和 Mistral 7B 模型。

“By partnering with Mistral AI, Snowflake is putting one of the most powerful LLMs on the market directly in the hands of our customers, empowering every user to build cutting-edge, AI-powered apps with simplicity and scale,” Sridhar Ramaswamy, who recently took over as the CEO of Snowflake, said in a press statement.

“With Snowflake as the trusted data foundation, we’re transforming how enterprises harness the power of LLMs through Snowflake Cortex so they can cost-effectively address new AI use cases within the security and privacy boundaries of the Data Cloud,” he added.

When reached out by VentureBeat, Snowflake refused to share the amount invested in Mistral or the names of early customers testing the French startup’s models – which are now available in public preview as part of Cortex.

“The models were just made available...so it is too early to drop names but Mistral Large, Mistral AI’s most powerful model, is one that many of our customers that wanted more performant models running in Snowflake were really looking forward to,” Baris Gultekin, Head of Product for AI at Snowflake, told VentureBeat.

Gultekin also confirmed that Google’s all-new Gemma 7B open model is also coming to Cortex alongside Mistral 7B. The goal, he said, is to give customers flexibility with curated access to the top-performing conversational models within their targeted size category. The company will add more models across sizes to build on this work.

“Snowflake is all about flexibility without complexity to really help organizations deliver value quickly and securely with generative AI. To deliver on that vision, we’ll continue to evaluate and update the options that will help us provide our customers with top-performing open and commercial LLMs as serverless functions inside Snowflake Cortex,” he noted.

That said, while the current focus remains on offering LLMs to customers looking to build gen AI apps, the product head did indicate that the company’s internal engineering teams are considering using LLMs in other areas. He refused to share the specifics of this work though.

Mistral continues to shine with industry partnerships

The deal with Snowflake marks another major win for Mistral, expanding the startup’s reach and cementing its position as a vendor-trusted player in the AI category dominated by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

Just last week, the company secured $16 million investment from Microsoft as part of a partnership that brings its models on the Azure cloud platform. The deal made Mistral only the second company after OpenAI to offer its models on the Microsoft platform.

The same week also saw Mistral’s separate partnerships with IBM, making the Mistral 8x7B available on WatsonX, and with Perpexplity and Amazon. However, the Jeff Bezos-led technology giant is yet to roll the models on its Bedrock platform.

Snowflake 今天已经加入，看看这家初创公司还能获得哪些其他合作伙伴关系来提高其知名度并推动跨行业的人工智能用例，这将是一件很有趣的事情。

就背景而言，在数据生态系统中与 Snowflake 竞争的 Databricks 还提供开源、商业可用的语言模型来构建生成式 AI 应用程序。

其中包括 MosaicML 的模型，Ali Ghodsi 领导的数据巨头去年以 13 亿美元的价格收购了 MosaicML。

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