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French CEO of AFP (Agence France Presse) Fabrice Fries (L) shakes hands with French founder of artificial intelligence start-up Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch at the Mistral headquarters in Paris, on January 15, 2025. AFP (Agence France-Presse) and Mistral have signed an agreement that allows the conversational robot of the French start-up that aims to become Europe’s leading AI player to use the agency’s news dispatches to answer its users' queries, they announced on January 16, 2025.

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Just a day after Googleinkeda deal with The Associated Press , Mistral hasannounceda content make out with newswire Agence France - Presse ( AFP ) to improve the accuracy of answers inLe Chat , Mistral ’s chatbot .

This is the first good deal of this kind for the Paris - establish artificial tidings company , and it indicate that Mistral does n’t want to be turn over as “ just ” a foundation model manufacturer .

Going forward , Le Chat will be able to tap into AFP ’s account , and given that AFP is one of the biggest news agencies in the domain , thatrepresentsa significant book of text —   around 2,300 stories per day in six speech communication ( Arabic , English , French , German , Portuguese , and Spanish ) .

Le Chat will be able-bodied to question AFP ’s entire archive date back to 1983 . However , photos and videos are n’t part of this multi - year agreement . As a monitor , Mistral focus on large linguistic process role model and does n’t offer image - propagation models . Image generation in Le Chat is handled by Black Forest Labs ’ Flux Pro .

The AI party also want to build appealing product , set about with Le Chat . From what I ’ve hear , the company is also puzzle out on dedicated apps that let user access Le Chat and better compete with OpenAI ’s ChatGPT and Anthropic ’s Claude .

OpenAI has been leading the charge when it come to content good deal . The company has inked partnership with AP , Axel Springer , Condé Nast , El País , Financial Times , Le Monde , and others . It ’s going to be interesting to see whether Mistral has more content partnership in the works .

“ We believe improving the accuracy of [ Le Chat ’s ] responses is a central step in the deployment of our technology , particularly for businesses , ” Mistral co - founding father and CEO Arthur Mensch order in a instruction . “ Through this partnership , we are cater our guest with a unique multicultural and multilingual alternative . ”

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Today ’s partnership is also a first for AFP . It could n’t have make out at a well time , as Meta ended its third - political party fact - check programjust last week , and AFP was one of the fundamental better half in Meta ’s fact - see to it arrangement . “ Through this partnership , AFP is further diversify its revenue generator , ” AFP chairman and CEO Fabrice Fries say in a statement .

While the AI industry is look to better its products with these arrangements , there are two side effects that could be considered as add benefits : firstly , AI company can position themselves as ( financial ) allies to news organizations ; and , these partnership protect them from potential copyright misdemeanour claims .