{"id":625850,"date":"2024-06-28T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/silo-and-mistral-join-forces-in-yet-another-european-ai-team-up\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T00:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:00:46","slug":"silo-and-mistral-join-forces-in-yet-another-european-ai-team-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/silo-and-mistral-join-forces-in-yet-another-european-ai-team-up\/","title":{"rendered":"#Silo and Mistral join forces in yet another European AI team-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40dbe3cb27f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40dbe3cb27f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/silo-and-mistral-join-forces-in-yet-another-european-ai-team-up\/#Enhancing_Europes_AI_capabilites\" >Enhancing Europe\u2019s AI capabilites<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n                            If you follow European AI <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, you may have read that Finland\u2019s Silo AI and Germany\u2019s Aleph Alpha recently established a partnership to deliver \u201csovereign AI.\u201d It would seem whoever is responsible for partnerships at Silo is keeping busy, as the company today announced yet another collaboration, this time with investor darling Mistral AI.<\/p>\n<p>The past couple of years have seen businesses scramble to implement AI, often even before they know how they are actually going to use it, for fear of being left behind. Without proper implementation and the correct solutions and models, the promises of efficiency gains and added value that artificial intelligence can offer an organisation risk falling flat.<\/p>\n<p>Silo and Mistral say they will provide a joint offering for businesses, \u201cmerging the end-to-end AI capabilities of Silo AI with Mistral AI\u2019s industry leading state-of-the-art AI models,\u201d combining their expertise to meet an increasing demand for value-creating AI solutions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a great pleasure to partner with a global leader in frontier AI models. We\u2019ve always had an aligned mission with Mistral AI, to build world-class AI in Europe,\u201d said Peter Sarlin, CEO and co-founder of Silo AI (with whom you can listen to an interview on the TNW podcast). \u201cI believe that their models, combined with Silo AI\u2019s platform and extensive experience with large-scale enterprises, is a strong combination in the rapidly evolving AI market.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Enhancing_Europes_AI_capabilites\"><\/span>Enhancing Europe\u2019s AI capabilites<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Both of these two companies are at the forefront of AI development, but with slightly different focuses. Helsinki-based Silo refers to itself as \u201cEurope\u2019s largest private AI lab.\u201d The company is intent on supporting that somewhat yet intangible idea of Europe\u2018s \u201cdigital sovereignty,\u201d and has developed large language models (LLMs) specifically focused on the Nordic languages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper latest channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<p class=\"channel-cta-title\">The &lt;3 of EU tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol&#8217; founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It&#8217;s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, it\u2019s main commercial offering lies in platforms for large-scale enterprises. Paris-based Mistral AI, on the other hand, specialises in generative AI, having released several open-source models for developers as well as optimised commercial models of different sizes. The company emphasises the democratisation of frontier AI models.<\/p>\n<p>Mistral AI was founded by former employees at Google DeepMind and Meta. Among them is Arthur Mensch, the company\u2019s CEO, who said of the Silo tie-up that the move would \u201csignificantly enhance Europe\u2019s AI capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBy combining Silo AI\u2019s technical capabilities with our cutting-edge models, we are not only together accelerating the adoption of AI <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> across Europe but also pursuing our mission to make AI ubiquitous and accessible to all,\u201d the Mistral CEO stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Funding-wise, the two have had a very different journey. Silo, founded in 2017, has taken on very little external funding. Mistral, which launched just last year in April, quickly skyrocketed to the top of investor wish lists, touted as a European challenger to OpenAI, the company that set off the GenAI craze in late 2022 with the release of ChatGPT. Its latest funding round, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> B, came in at $640mn at a valuation of $6.2bn.<\/p>\n<p>As Europe runs to catch up in the global artificial intelligence race, we are likely to see more partnerships seeking to make the most out of expertise spread across different parts of the continent. Who knows, collaboration might just be what comes to signify the European AI landscape (along with the EU zeal for regulation) and move the needle on that elusive \u201csovereignty.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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