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Scaling Europe’s AI compute capacity : Microsoft and Mistral are announcing a new agreement to expand AI infrastructure in Europe. Microsoft will leverage Mistral’s expanded Europe-based GPU infrastructure to increase capacity for AI development and to support the delivery of MSFT’s cloud and AI services. This represents a multibillion dollar commitment from Microsoft and an important way for Microsoft customers to benefit from Mistral’s scientific and compute innovations.
Integrating Mistral models into Microsoft enterprise products: Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 are now available in Microsoft Foundry, and Mistral Medium 3.5 is now in Microsoft Copilot Studio. This brings the benefits of Mistral’s frontier, efficient and multilingual models to Microsoft customers globally, allowing developers to build, customize and operate AI applications.
Giving enterprises greater control over AI at scale: Azure enables organizations to deploy Mistral models across cloud, cloud-connected and fully disconnected environments, while maintaining control over data, operations and business continuity.
REDMOND, Wash., and PARIS — July 21, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Mistral on Tuesday announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership to help enterprises and regulated industries adopt frontier AI with greater choice, control and operational consistency. The companies are bringing Mistral’s frontier and efficient models across the Microsoft platform, including Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio and Azure, so customers can build and run AI across a spectrum of operating environments, from cloud-scale deployments to customer-controlled and fully disconnected operations.
Across Europe and other regulated markets, organizations want access to frontier AI while maintaining control over their data, operations and critical workloads. This partnership extends Microsoft’s Sovereign Cloud approach by combining Mistral’s frontier models with Microsoft’s security, compliance and cloud-to-edge platform, giving customers greater choice in how and where they deploy AI.
“Europe should have access to the world’s most capable AI without compromising control over their data, operations or digital future,” said Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President, Microsoft. “By bringing Mistral’s frontier European models into our sovereign cloud portfolio and enabling them across public cloud, cloud-connected and fully disconnected environments, we are honoring the European Digital Commitments we made and giving customers a trusted foundation for AI they can operate on their own terms.”
“Our mission has always been to put frontier AI in the hands of every organization while keeping them in control of their technology,” said Arthur Mensch, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mistral. “With Microsoft as our partner, our models reach enterprises and public institutions at global scale — delivered through a platform trusted for the most demanding, regulated workloads and available everywhere our customers operate.”
Europe’s AI future: expanded GPU capacity
Underpinning the partnership is a new multibillion-dollar agreement focused on expanding AI infrastructure in Europe. Mistral is adding its GPU capacity, drawing on thousands of the latest NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs to increase AI compute availability for customers and provide a shared platform for training, inference and large-scale deployment.
The agreement strengthens Europe’s AI infrastructure while helping Microsoft meet growing demand for cloud and AI services. Consistent with Microsoft’s flexible approach to global infrastructure, which combines its own datacenters, leased facilities and strategic collaborations with third-party providers, it expands Microsoft’s capacity footprint in Europe and supports the...