Cerebras & Mistral Set AI Speed Record in Landmark UAE-France Collaboration

CIOTechOutlook Team | Friday, 07 February 2025, 05:27 IST

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Cerebras Systems, an AI chip company supported by the UAE tech giant G42, announced that it has teamed up with France's Mistral and assisted the European AI firm in setting a speed record. Mistral, a producer of open-source AI technology, intends to compete with other open-source rivals like Meta Platforms and China's DeepSeek, which disrupted global markets at the end of last month by asserting advanced performance at a low price. All three rival the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI.

On Thursday, Mistral launched an app named Le Chat, which it claimed can answer user queries at a speed of 1,000 words per second. Cerebras stated that it is supplying the computing power for these results, asserting that this positions Mistral as the fastest AI assistant globally, surpassing OpenAI and DeepSeek.

Cerebras, based in Silicon Valley, is one of the rare competitors to Nvidia for AI model training and has filed for an initial public offering that is currently delayed as U.S. officials examine G42's association with the company. However, the collaboration with Mistral on Thursday involves providing an application utilizing its model to users, a process referred to as "inference" in the field of AI.

With competitors nearing the ability to match OpenAI's models, the promptness of providing answers to users has become increasingly important, stated Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman.

"You want better answers. And to get better answers, you need more compute at inference time," Feldman told Reuters. "It was our first announced major win at a tier-one model maker, and so we're really proud of that."

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