Microsoft and French artificial intelligence (AI) champion Mistral AI have struck a deal which will bring the start-up’s new AI model to market, the company announced on Monday. The Paris-based company unveiled its new large language model (LLM) – the underlying technology that powers generative AI products. Called Mistral Large, the company says it “reaches top-tier reasoning capabilities,” and is fluent in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian. Mistral also unveiled its multilingual conversational assistant called Le Chat (the cat), which the 10-month-old company said “is natively mul…