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Microsoft and Mistral Partner to Build Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Regulated European Industries
Microsoft and Mistral expand their partnership with a multi-billion dollar deal. Mistral gains thousands of NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs and integrates its Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 models into Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, offering cloud, connected, and offline deployment modes for European regulated industries under EU AI Act.
Microsoft Invests Billions in Mistral AI, Integrates Models into Azure for Sovereign AI
Microsoft and Mistral AI announce a multi-billion dollar partnership, with Microsoft investing in Mistral's European data center capacity and integrating Mistral's Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 models into Azure Foundry. The deal directly responds to US export controls on Anthropic, offering regulated European industries a sovereign AI alternative, signaling a shift from centralized US AI to localized infrastructure.