Microsoft is building an AI stack it doesn’t fully own — on purpose
The New Stack Amanda Caswell
Microsoft and Mistral announced a multibillion-dollar partnership to build enterprise AI infrastructure that operates across multiple regions, including sovereign European compute powered by NVIDIA's Vera Rubin GPUs. Mistral Medium 3.5, a 128-billion-parameter open-weight model with 256,000-token context, is now available in Microsoft Foundry alongside Mistral OCR 4 for document processing in 170 languages. Organizations in regulated industries can now deploy AI workloads across public Azure, on-premises systems, and air-gapped environments without refactoring applications, reducing lock-in to a single cloud provider.
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Microsoft and Mistral are deepening their partnership with a multibillion-dollar agreement focused on enterprise AI infrastructure. The goal is to The post Microsoft is building an AI stack it doesn’t fully own — on purpose appeared first on The New Stack.
