今天，數(shù)據(jù)云巨頭 Snowflake 宣布與總部位于巴黎的人工智能初創(chuàng)公司 Mistral 簽署了一份多年期協(xié)議，該初創(chuàng)公司于 2023 年 6 月籌集了歐洲有史以來(lái)最大的種子輪融資，自此成為全球人工智能領(lǐng)域的后起之秀。

Snowflake 表示，根據(jù)合作伙伴關(guān)系，它計(jì)劃將 Mistral 構(gòu)建的所有開(kāi)放大型語(yǔ)言模型納入其數(shù)據(jù)云，使它們直接可供希望構(gòu)建 LLM 應(yīng)用程序的客戶使用。

該公司還證實(shí)，正在通過(guò)其企業(yè)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資部門投資這家成立九個(gè)月的初創(chuàng)公司。

但具體金額尚未透露。

這筆交易標(biāo)志著對(duì) Mistral 的又一次重大信任投票，該公司一直通過(guò)與大型科技巨頭合作積極向前發(fā)展。

該公司還一直在快速擴(kuò)展其模型陣容，其最新的 Mistral Large 模型的性能可與 OpenAI、Anthropic 和 Google 的產(chǎn)品相媲美。

對(duì) Snowflake-Mistral 交易有何期待？

自成立以來(lái)，Snowflake 一直專注于構(gòu)建企業(yè)選擇的數(shù)據(jù)基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施（現(xiàn)在稱為數(shù)據(jù)云），并支持廣泛的下游用例，包括人工智能和分析。

該公司不斷改進(jìn)其產(chǎn)品以滿足客戶不斷增長(zhǎng)的需求。

因此，當(dāng)客戶需要一個(gè)解決方案來(lái)使用平臺(tái)上存儲(chǔ)的數(shù)據(jù)開(kāi)發(fā)生成式人工智能應(yīng)用程序時(shí)，它推出了 Cortex，這是一項(xiàng)專為構(gòu)建 LLM 應(yīng)用程序而定制的完全托管服務(wù)。

在去年的 Snowday 活動(dòng)期間宣布，Snowflake Cortex 為使用數(shù)據(jù)云的企業(yè)提供了一套 AI 構(gòu)建模塊（包括開(kāi)源法學(xué)碩士），以分析平臺(tái)上的數(shù)據(jù)（通過(guò) Snowflake 的安全性、隱私性和治理）并構(gòu)建針對(duì)特定目標(biāo)的應(yīng)用程序不同的特定于業(yè)務(wù)的用例。

該公司從法學(xué)碩士開(kāi)始，負(fù)責(zé)專門的任務(wù)，如情感分析、翻譯和摘要，以及 Meta 流行的 Llama 2。

現(xiàn)在，通過(guò)與 Mistral AI 的合作和投資，該公司正在 Cortex 中添加另一個(gè)開(kāi)放且高性能的模型系列，用于法學(xué)碩士應(yīng)用程序開(kāi)發(fā)。

這不僅包括全新的 Mistral Large（其性能僅次于 GPT-4，其性能優(yōu)于 Claude 2、Gemini Pro 和 GPT 3.5，具有跨五種語(yǔ)言的原生能力和 32K 令牌的上下文窗口），還包括 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 今天已經(jīng)加入，看看這家初創(chuàng)公司還能獲得哪些其他合作伙伴關(guān)系來(lái)提高其知名度并推動(dòng)跨行業(yè)的人工智能用例，這將是一件很有趣的事情。

就背景而言，在數(shù)據(jù)生態(tài)系統(tǒng)中與 Snowflake 競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的 Databricks 還提供開(kāi)源、商業(yè)可用的語(yǔ)言模型來(lái)構(gòu)建生成式 AI 應(yīng)用程序。

其中包括 MosaicML 的模型，Ali Ghodsi 領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的數(shù)據(jù)巨頭去年以 13 億美元的價(jià)格收購(gòu)了 MosaicML。

熱點(diǎn)：數(shù)據(jù) AI 合作 開(kāi)放 維維安