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February 10, 2025

Helsing and Mistral partner to develop LLMs for defence

The partnership will focus on developing "vision-language-action models" for defence

Anne Sraders

2 min read

AI defence and drones startup Helsing has struck a deal with French OpenAI challenger Mistral to develop large language models (LLMs) for defence.

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Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the venture capital industry and deeptech startups, including robotics, spacetech and defence tech. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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