Session Abstract

Can Europe AI? You have probably heard about "Le Chat", and AI chat similar in its functionality to ChatGPT or Claude.ai. But, Mistral AI, French company behind "Le Chat" has much more to offer, and at the moment, together with German DeepL, it is the best what Europe has to offer in the AI arena. Also, Mistral AI is committed to open-source development and has released several models under open-source licenses, which makes it a competitor not only to Open AI and Anthropic, but also to DeepSeek and Meta's Llama. This will be a deep dive session into Mistral: it's capabilities, its lovely French quirks, and how can you make the use of it. In this session we will discuss: - Mistral AI basics - Hosting and consuming Mistral AI (Mistral APIs, Azure AI, self-hosting) - Using Microsoft tech stack (Semantic Kernel and Microsoft AI Extensions) to work with Mistral AI À bientôt!

Jussi Roine

I was born at the ripe age of 0, in 1977. I was drawn to computers at an early age, and much to the surprise of my parents, I learned BASIC on a VIC-20 in record time. Fast forward to 1989, I found the Internet. The information superhighway at my fingertips! I've done my share of Gopher, telnet, and IRC, I guess. Then, in 1990 I 'saw the light', and started fiddling with this Linux thing. That was fun. Compiling the kernel while attending a class for high school was memorable, also. I've since kept working on the technology, focusing on Microsoft platforms and solutions since 1994. I still miss Windows NT 3.51.