French AI start-up’s partnership with newswire comes as Silicon Valley competitors pull back on moderation

Benzinga

New York

United States

French AI Startup, Founded By Google And Meta Veterans, Signs Million-Dollar Content Moderation Deal With AFP To Counter Big Tech's Pullback - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)

Founded less than two years ago, French generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mistral AI has swiftly staked out a place as the great European hope contending with US giants dominating the sector. Read full story

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The Star Kuala Lumpur

Star Media Group

Malaysia

Mistral, the French generative AI underdog taking on US giants

French AI startup Mistral has partnered with Agence France-Presse (AFP) in a multi-million-euro deal to integrate over 2,000 daily AFP articles into its chatbot, Le Chat, highlighting a commitment to independent, fact-based journalism amid Big Tech's content moderation pullback.

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Tie-ups between news organisations and AI developers remain relatively rare worldwide.

The Straits Times

Singapore Press Holdings

Singapore

AFP strikes deal for France's Mistral AI to use news articles

DECRYPTION - The young model editor and the news agency have signed a contract worth several million euros to integrate the content of news reports with the responses of the conversational assistant Le Chat.

DÉCRYPTAGE - Le jeune éditeur de modèles et l’agence de presse ont signé un contrat de plusieurs millions d’euros pour intégrer le contenu des dépêches d’actualité aux réponses de l’assistant conversationnel Le Chat.

IA : pourquoi l’accord signé entre l’AFP et la société Mistral AI est stratégique

Le Figaro

Dassault Group

Paris

Île-de-France

France

AI: why the agreement signed between AFP and Mistral AI is strategic

Under this “multi-year” contract, the French start-up's chatbot will be able to use news reports from the news agency to respond to requests from its users.

En vertu de ce contrat « pluriannuel », le robot conversationnel de la start-up française pourra utiliser les dépêches d’actualité de l’agence de presse pour répondre aux requêtes de ses utilisateurs.

Intelligence artificielle : l’Agence France-Presse et l’entreprise française Mistral signent un accord

Le Monde

Artificial intelligence: Agence France-Presse and the French company Mistral sign an agreement

Global news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) and French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI have signed a deal for the start-up's chatbot to use news agency reports to respond to users' requests, executives from the two organizations said Thursday. The parties did not reveal the value of the &quot;multi-year&quot; contract nor…

Japan Today

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Sakado

Saitama Prefecture

Japan

The French Press Agency and the tech company, Mistral AI, announced on Thursday, January 16, the start of their commercial collaboration. The robot designed to communicate with users, Le Chat, can now be based on all the information content produced by AFP.

L’agence Française de Presse et l’entreprise de tech, Mistral AI, ont annoncé, ce jeudi 16 janvier, le début de leur collaboration commerciale. Le robot conçu pour dialoguer avec des utilisateurs, Le Chat, peut désormais se baser sur l’ensemble du contenu informationnel produit par l’AFP.

IA : l’AFP autorise le robot conversationnel de Mistral AI à se servir de ses 38 millions de dépêches

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AI: AFP authorizes Mistral AI's chatbot to use its 38 million dispatches

The company has become a "shooting star", emerging just as investors were looking for a "French-style OpenAI".

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Does Mistral—the French AI underdog—have what it takes to take on U.S. giants?

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Mistral announces a content deal with the Agence France-Presse to improve answer accuracy in Le Chat, marking the French AI startup's first such partnership  —  Just a day after Google inked a deal with The Associated Press, Mistral is also announcing a content deal with the Agence France-Presse …

Techmeme

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Mistral announces a content deal with the Agence France-Presse to improve answer accuracy in Le Chat, marking the French AI startup's first such partnership

Mistral signs AFP deal for fact-based chatbot in riposte to ‘free speech’ rivals

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