Elon Musk's xAI discussed partnership with Mistral to try and rival OpenAI
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- xAI reportedly discussed partnering with Mistral to compete against OpenAI and Anthropic.
- The potential partnership would have included the American startup Cursor.
- SpaceX recently announced a deal giving it the option to buy Cursor for $60 billion.
- Mistral is a leading European AI firm focused on developing large language models.
- xAI launched Grok in 2023 and is expanding infrastructure and model performance.
- AI companies are racing to build large GPU clusters to develop more capable models faster.
- Musk built the 'Colossus' supercomputer in 2024, aiming to expand to 1 million GPUs.
- Euronews contacted Mistral and xAI but had not received a reply at publication time.