Cerebras Systems, an AI chip company backed by UAE tech giant G42, announced on Thursday its partnership with France’s Mistral, helping the European AI firm achieve a significant speed record. Mistral, known for its open-source AI technology, is competing with Meta and China’s DeepSeek, both of which have made headlines with advanced and cost-effective AI models. On the same day, Mistral launched an AI assistant app called Le Chat, boasting an impressive response rate of 1,000 words per second.
Cerebras claims to be powering this breakthrough, making Mistral the fastest AI assistant, surpassing OpenAI and DeepSeek. While Cerebras is primarily a competitor to Nvidia in AI model training, this collaboration focuses on inference, the process of serving AI-generated responses to users. The company’s CEO, Andrew Feldman, emphasized that as AI competition intensifies, response speed has become a key priority. He highlighted that their technology enables faster and better answers, marking this partnership as Cerebras’ first major success with a top-tier AI model developer.
