Microsoft And Mistral Expand Partnership With Multibillion-Dollar European AI Infrastructure ...

Microsoft and Mistral have signed a multibillion-dollar deal to expand GPU infrastructure across Europe, integrating Mistral models into Azure, Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry. The partnership targets regulated industries—financial services, healthcare, manufacturing—requiring data residency, offline deployment and sovereign control over AI workloads.

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