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May 28, 2026

Inside Mistral’s billion-dollar bet on building Europe’s AI cloud

France’s AI darling is steadily building its infrastructure offering — is it the right move?


After promising to build homegrown models to compete against US tech giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, French AI darling Mistral is now determined to establish itself as one of Europe’s leading providers of AI cloud and compute services. 

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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