Cloudera brings Mistral AI’s frontier models into its secure hybrid data environments
Big-data company Cloudera Inc. is pushing to become the go-to partner for enterprise-grade sovereign artificial intelligence workloads after announcing a massive, nine-figure strategic partnership with the French AI model maker Mistral AI SAS.
The partnership is aimed at bringing secure, sovereign AI to wherever enterprises’ data lives, be it in the cloud, on-premises or in hybrid environments, Cloudera said at its EVOLVE26 event in São Paulo today. Mistral will integrate its powerful large language models directly with Cloudera’s hybrid data and AI platform to enable this.
Cloudera says it’s trying to address a major problem for enterprises that operate in highly regulated industries, which have to go above and beyond when it comes to safeguarding their data. Though those enterprises really want to explore how AI can help them, they find it challenging to do so.
To take full advantage of AI, they need to be able to feed their most sensitive and proprietary information to external AI models, but doing this is extremely risky, because it opens up a minefield of security, compliance and data privacy issues. There’s also the issue of costs, which can quickly spiral out of control when relying on public application programming interfaces to access the best AI models.
