On the stage of the VivaTech trade fair on Wednesday, June 11, French President Emmanuel Macron was full of praise for the initiative announced just hours earlier by the French artificial intelligence start-up, Mistral AI, and the American world leader in AI chips, Nvidia. “This [partnership] is a game changer, because it will increase our sovereignty and it will allow us to do much more.”
“It’s historic,” the president added to CEOs Arthur Mensch and Jensen Huang, who stood by his side. Beginning in 2026, Mistral will launch a European platform dedicated to AI and powered by Nvidia processors.
“You are moving up the value chain,” Macron said, addressing Mistral AI. Until now, the start-up, founded in 2023, had mainly developed AI models competing with those of OpenAI, Google, Anthropic or Meta, whether for language processing, computer code assistance or more complex tasks requiring “reasoning,” as demonstrated by the launch on June 10 of Magistral.
But with “Mistral Compute,” unveiled that same day with Nvidia, the company took its first step into the field of computing power, a domain with ever-increasing needs to train and operate AI models. “This is a decisive step, as it allows us to control a critical vertical in the value chain of this technology,” explained Mensch in the press release.
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