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A | IT之家 7 月 21 日消息，微软当地时间周二宣布，已与法国人工智能初创公司 Mistral 达成合作协议，将投入数十亿美元建设 Mistral 在欧洲的算力基础设施，同时借助微软的云计算和软件平台，在全球进一步推广 Mistral 的 AI 技术。

B | 根据协议，微软 Azure 客户将能够直接使用 Mistral 位于法国的数据中心开发 AI 应用。 A former Ohio State University student-athlete is speaking out against Rep. Jim Jordan's bid for House speaker, saying Jordan "turned a blind eye" to allegations of abuse against a team doctor during his time as assistant coach for the university's wrestling team.Rocky Ratliff is now an attorney who also represents several other former OSU wrestlers in an ongoing lawsuit against the university."I think the wrestlers that I represent, not one of us, would back him for such a leadership position," Ratliff told ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis.He continued, "He's abandoned us for his own selfish reasons when he could have helped us. He's chosen not to. So that is not the good makings of any type of leadership or any type of leader that he would have put up with at Ohio State. It's just not. None of us wrestlers believe he should get that position."A spokesperson for Jordan, R-Ohio, told ABC News, "Chairman Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it."The allegations of abuse were against Dr. Richard Strauss, an Ohio State team doctor and sports medicine researcher. Strauss is accused of sexually abusing at least 177 men over an 18-year period from 1979 to 1997 -- nearly his entire time at Ohio State, according to an independent report released in 2019.Investigators determined that university officials ignored nearly two decades of accusations of sexual abuse against Strauss, who killed himself in 2006 at age 67, seven years after retiring from the university.The accusations of abuse involved athletes from at least 16 sports including wrestling, hockey and swimming, and included Strauss' work at the student health center and an off-campus clinic that he founded late in his tenure, according to the report.The university removed Strauss as a school physician in 1996 after a flurry of student complaints and reported his actions to the State Medical Board of Ohio. However, the school allowed Strauss to retain his tenured faculty position while he operated an off-campus clinic, where the report says he continued to abuse students.Ohio State University has since admitted that it failed to protect students from Strauss, paying out $60 million in settlements to some 296 victims.Jordan, who was an assistant coach on the team from 1986 to 1994, came under fire in 2018 when several former OSU wrestlers took their allegations against Strauss to the media and claimed Jordan was aware of Strauss' inappropriate behavior and failed to report it. The university then announced it was opening an investigation into the allegations against Strauss.Jordan also denied knowing about the abuse when the allegations first came out in 2018.Jordan is now facing renewed scrutiny amid the ongoing battle for House speaker. After again failing to receive enough GOP support, the congressman and chair of the House Judiciary Committee was defeated a second time after a vote on Wednesday afternoon."We believe very strongly, especially all the wrestlers that were there at the time, that Jim Jordan knew what was going on," Ratliff said on Wednesday.Ratliff continued, "Jordan should come forward and tell the truth about what happened. At least meet with the guys. He's failed to do that -- to hear our side, he's failed. You know, even if you believe what Jim Jordan says, he has never once reached out to any wrestler to say, 'Hey, I missed it. I'm sorry. How are you feeling?'"ABC News' Eric Ortega, Imtiyaz Delawala, Lindsey Griswold, and Andrea Amiel contributed to this report.。这不仅将提升微软在欧洲的算力资源，也为金融、政府等受监管行业提供了一个不依赖美国控制基础设施的替代方案。与此同时，Mistral 已将旗下 AI 模型 Medium 3.5 和 OCR 4 接入微软的 AI 开发平台 Foundry，微软 Copilot Studio 也已支持 Medium 3.5 模型。此外，拥有自建数据中心、通过 Azure Local 使用微软服务的企业，也可以部署 Mistral 的开源 AI 模型。这类模型允许企业获得授权后进行自主开发和定制，更灵活地打造符合自身需求的 AI 系统。此次合作凸显出欧洲及其他地区希望减少对美国科技依赖的趋势，以便在未来数字经济和社会发展中掌握更多自主权。同时，这项合作也有助于微软满足市场对开源 AI 模型不断增长的需求。事实上，欧洲推动“AI 主权”的努力已经持续数年。而上个月，美国决定暂停向海外开放旧金山 AI 公司 Anthropic 的两款先进模型，使欧洲对技术自主的需求变得更加迫切。微软总裁布拉德 · 史密斯（Brad Smith）与 Mistral 首席执行官阿瑟 · 门施（Arthur Mensch）在接受路透社采访时表示，双方合作的目标是在保障欧洲 AI 自主性的同时，仍然能够享受到美国软件生态和安全能力带来的优势。史密斯表示：“通过让 Mistral 模型同时运行在 Azure Local 和 Mistral 自己的算力平台上，我们能够把美国和欧洲的技术结合起来，并以一种能够持续、可靠提供服务的方式实现这一目标。” 不过，要让欧洲真正摆脱对美国技术的依赖并非易事。当前推动全球 AI 热潮的英伟达 GPU 仍由美国设计，而 Mistral 的数据中心建设同样依赖英伟达芯片。

C | 英伟达与微软一样，也是 Mistral 的投资方。史密斯强调，此次公布的合作协议并不包含微软对 Mistral 新增股权投资。对于彭博社此前报道称 Mistral 正洽谈新一轮融资、计划以约 200 亿欧元（IT之家注：现汇率约合 1547.14 亿元人民币）估值融资约 30 亿欧元的消息，门施拒绝置评。总部位于巴黎的 Mistral 被视为欧洲 AI 领域最具代表性的企业之一，也是欧洲在 AI 竞争中的重要希望。目前，公司主要面向制造业、金融服务和国防等领域提供 AI 解决方案，并已获得法国军方订单。不过，与 Anthropic 等美国 AI 公司相比，其估值仍存在明显差距。门施表示，此次合作表明，微软和 Mistral 正在共同努力，缩小欧洲在 AI 基础设施方面与美国之间的差距。 Mistral 计划到 2030 年建设总计 1 吉瓦的 AI 算力基础设施。