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 Google Cloud will use Mistral AI's Codestral artificial intelligence model for Google's Vertex AI service, Google Cloud said on Wednesday.
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WHY IT'S IMPORTANT:
The partnership highlights the rapid growth and popularity of Mistral AI, which many analysts view as the European alternative to the Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Google, meanwhile, is building its own generative AI product Vertex AI. 
 The partnership highlights the rapid growth and popularity of Mistral AI, which many analysts view as the European alternative to the Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O), opens new tab OpenAI. 
 Google Cloud is the first hyperscaler to introduce Codestral, Mistral AI's generative AI model explicitly designed for code generation tasks, as a fully-managed service Codestral helps developers write and interact with code through a shared instruction and completion API endpoint.