Microsoft and Mistral Expand Partnership on European Data Centers and Product Integration
Microsoft and Mistral have announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership. Microsoft is investing billions of dollars to grow Mistral’s European data centers, while integrating Mistral’s flagship models into Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure — aimed at giving regulated industries and sovereignty-minded enterprises frontier AI they can control.
Details
- Infrastructure investment: Microsoft is putting billions of dollars into expanding Mistral’s European data centers, built around thousands of NVIDIA’s latest Vera Rubin GPUs for training, inference, and large-scale deployment
- Shared capacity: Microsoft will draw on compute capacity from Mistral’s European data centers for its own cloud and AI services; under its “Mistral Compute” program, Mistral is targeting up to 200 megawatts by 2027 and one gigawatt by 2030
- Product integration: Mistral Medium 3.5 and Mistral OCR 4 are now available in Microsoft Foundry, and Mistral Medium 3.5 is also integrated into Copilot Studio
- No new equity: Microsoft Vice Chair Brad Smith confirmed the agreement does not include any new equity investment
- Strategic aim: Reinforces a “sovereign cloud” approach, letting European manufacturers, healthcare organizations, and financial institutions deploy AI locally while complying with data-residency rules and protecting IP
How to try it
- Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 are accessible via Microsoft Foundry, and Mistral Medium 3.5 is also available through Copilot Studio
- The partnership also includes a joint go-to-market plan, Azure credits, and customer workshops