Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure

Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence startup, announced Wednesday a sweeping expansion into AI infrastructure that positions the company as Europe’s answer to American cloud computing giants, while simultaneously unveiling new reasoning models that rival OpenAI’s most advanced systems.

The Paris-based company revealed Mistral Compute, a comprehensive AI infrastructure platform built in partnership with Nvidia, designed to give European enterprises and governments an alternative to relying on U.S.-based cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The move represents a significant strategic shift for Mistral from purely developing AI models to controlling the entire technology stack.

“This move into AI infrastructure marks a transformative step for Mistral AI, as it allows us to address a critical vertical of the AI value chain,” said Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI. “With this shift comes the responsibility to ensure that our solutions not ...