Snowflake Partners with Mistral AI to Bring Language Models to Enterprises Through Snowflake Cortex
Snowflake, a leading data cloud platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Mistral AI to empower enterprises with advanced language models through Snowflake Cortex. This collaboration aims to provide Snowflake customers with access to Mistral AI’s cutting-edge language models while ensuring data security and governance.
Empowering Enterprises with Advanced Language Models
Through this partnership, Snowflake customers will have the opportunity to leverage Mistral AI’s latest and most powerful language model, Mistral Large. This model boasts impressive benchmarks, positioning it as one of the top-performing models globally. In addition to its benchmark performance, Mistral Large excels in reasoning capabilities, proficiency in code and mathematics, and multilingual fluency in French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian.
Snowflake customers will also gain access to Mixtral 8x7B, an open-source model that surpasses industry benchmarks in speed and quality, along with Mistral 7B, optimized for low latency and high throughput. These models are available as part of Snowflake Cortex, a fully managed service that enables organizations to accelerate analytics and develop AI applications securely using their enterprise data.
Transforming AI Applications with Snowflake Cortex
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership, stating, “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.” This collaboration underscores Snowflake’s commitment to revolutionizing how enterprises harness the power of language models within the secure environment of the Data Cloud.
Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI, highlighted the shared values between Mistral AI and Snowflake, emphasizing their dedication to developing efficient, trustworthy AI models that drive innovation on a global scale. By making Mistral AI’s models available through the Snowflake Data Cloud, the partnership aims to democratize AI and enable users to create sophisticated AI applications that deliver value across various industries.
Advancing Generative AI Capabilities
Snowflake Cortex has been at the forefront of supporting industry-leading language models for specialized tasks such as sentiment analysis, translation, and summarization. By partnering with Mistral AI, Snowflake is expanding its suite of foundation language models within Snowflake Cortex, providing organizations with easy access to state-of-the-art generative AI capabilities.
To ensure a seamless user experience, Snowflake Cortex offers LLM Functions in public preview, enabling users to leverage AI with their enterprise data for a wide range of use cases. From sentiment analysis to developing full-stack AI applications like chatbots, Snowflake Cortex empowers users with diverse AI functionalities while maintaining stringent security and governance measures.
Driving AI Innovation and Democratization
Snowflake’s commitment to AI innovation extends beyond its customer base to the wider technology community. By joining the AI Alliance, an international community dedicated to promoting open, safe, and responsible AI, Snowflake aims to address the challenges and opportunities of generative AI comprehensively and transparently. Through these initiatives, Snowflake seeks to democratize the benefits of AI and drive innovation across industries.
In conclusion, the partnership between Snowflake and Mistral AI represents a significant step towards empowering enterprises with advanced language models through Snowflake Cortex. By combining cutting-edge AI capabilities with robust security and governance features, this collaboration is poised to revolutionize the landscape of AI applications in the Data Cloud.
