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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 VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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