Overview
- The companies announced the expanded partnership on Tuesday, with Microsoft committing multibillion‑dollar spending to use and accelerate Mistral’s on‑continent compute capacity while keeping exact financial and compute allocations undisclosed.
- Mistral’s models Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 have been added to Microsoft Foundry and Medium 3.5 is integrated into Microsoft Copilot Studio so developers can build and deploy apps inside Microsoft’s tooling.
- Under the deal Azure customers can run workloads on Mistral’s European data centers and organizations using Azure Local can operate Mistral’s open models on their own hardware, including in fully air‑gapped, disconnected environments.
- Microsoft said the agreement does not include new Microsoft equity in Mistral, and separate press reports that Samsung is negotiating an approximately €1 billion investment in Mistral remain unconfirmed by the companies.
- The pact gives Mistral greater financing visibility as it races to reach 200 MW of capacity by 2027 and 1 GW by 2030, and it responds to European demand for more control over AI infrastructure even as the industry still depends on U.S. chips and cloud software.