IBM Introduces Mistral Large on Watsonx.ai: Driving AI Innovation for Enterprises

Jakarta, INTI – IBM today announced the availability of Mistral Large on watsonx.ai as part of their commitment to make high-quality, high-performance foundation models widely accessible to enterprises and deployable on their own terms. As IBM’s enterprise AI studio for developers, watsonx.ai provides access to a diverse selection of open-source and commercial models that can be customized and integrated with business solutions and applications.

This latest addition of Mistral Large, which will initially be available as SaaS, expands the collection of models accessible on watsonx.ai, including the IBM Granite family of foundation models – comprised of open code models, language models, and scientific models such as time series and geospatial – that are driving impact for our customers. With the availability of Mistral AI’s commercial model on our platform, we are further extending our open, multi-model strategy, empowering enterprises to innovate, adapt, and scale.

Building on IBM’s commitment to advancing business innovation responsibly, we will also provide our customers with protection for Mistral Large via a capped intellectual property indemnity – making it the first third-party foundation model to which IBM extends indemnification.

IBM and Mistral AI continue to foster innovation and collaboration by providing enterprises with access to a mix of open-source and commercial models, as well as smaller, super-efficient models on watsonx.ai that prioritize data control. This approach is crucial for enhancing the quality of enterprise AI solutions.

Additionally, with Mistral Large now on the watsonx platform, enterprises can benefit from additional enterprise-ready products, including data store, prompt lab, model tuning, production monitoring, and governance capabilities. Watsonx customers are not constrained by platform lock-in and are empowered to deploy models that are available on watsonx.ai in their environment of choice – whether on-premise or with a public cloud provider. In the fast-paced world of AI, flexibility is crucial for enterprises to adapt quickly and avoid sunk investments in infrastructure and development.

Watsonx customers can now benefit from Mistral AI’s most powerful model, optimized to handle complex enterprise tasks that require reasoning and multilingual capabilities. For example:

1. RAG Specialization – supporting longer chat interactions and large document processing.
2. Function Calling – allowing connections to external tools such as user-defined functions or APIs. It enables ease of building applications catering to specific use cases and practical problems.
3. Coding Proficiency – generating, reviewing, and commenting on code, with the capability to output results in JSON format, enabling developers to interact with the model more naturally to extract information in a structured format.
4. Multilingual Capability – offering performance in French, German, Spanish, and Italian, in addition to English. Support is also provided for dozens of other languages.
5. Responsible AI – it comes with built-in guardrail features with an additional layer available.

The combination of IBM, Mistral AI, and the watsonx platform provides an option for organizations operating in Europe to realize the benefits of foundation models while empowering them with governance capabilities, reaffirming IBM’s commitment to building responsible AI.

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