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Snowflake forms partnership with Mistral AI to offer advanced AI models to users

By TechTaffy Desk

Snowflake and Mistral AI announced a multi-year collaboration to integrate Mistral AI’s language models into Snowflake’s offerings. This partnership is also backed by financial investment from Snowflake Ventures into Mistral AI’s Series A funding round.

Through this partnership, Snowflake customers will gain access to several of Mistral AI’s models, including Mistral Large, Mixtral 8x7B, and Mistral 7B. These models are now available in Snowflake Cortex, a managed service by Snowflake for handling language models and vector search, aimed at enhancing analytics and AI application development within the enterprise data framework.

Snowflake Cortex LLM Functions is currently available in public preview.

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