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Mistral announced two new paid enterprise offerings: regional inference for EU and US data processing and a Priority Tier for faster request handling. The company also opened its platform to third-party open models, starting with GLM-5.2 from Z.ai. These moves aim to give enterprises more control over data location and request speed, while expanding model choices.
Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, is developing AI agents that can plan meals and automatically fill shopping baskets, moving beyond predictive analytics. The retailer is partnering with Adobe and Mistral to build these agentic AI systems, which are currently in internal pilot testing. The initiative leverages 30 years of Clubcard loyalty data to create a personalized shopping assistant, signaling a broader industry shift toward autonomous retail.
Microsoft has launched a dedicated AI Gateway tier for Azure API Management, now in public preview in East US 2 and Sweden Central. The new tier reorganizes the control plane around models, MCP servers, and tools rather than APIs, supporting backends from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI. It offers centralized cost governance, OpenTelemetry telemetry, and a self-service model for application teams, though questions remain about access key blast radius and full lifecycle governance.
Mistral has released Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter open-weight safety classifier that matches the performance of much larger models on text safety benchmarks and sets a new high score for joint text and image classification. The model uses a runtime-definable yes/no question format, allowing operators to write custom screening rules in plain language. Shieldstral is designed to be fast and cost-effective, making it practical for real-time content moderation.
Samsung is reportedly in discussions to invest up to one billion euros in French AI startup Mistral, a move that would value the company at around 20 billion euros. The investment would mark a significant increase from Mistral's 12 billion euro valuation less than a year ago. Samsung previously invested in Mistral through its venture arm in 2024, and Swedish investor EQT is also said to be participating in the new funding round.
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform is ramping up with 300 global partners, delivering 10x more tokens per megawatt than Grace Blackwell NVL72 in benchmarks. CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Mistral are among early adopters. The platform's extreme co-design across seven chips and five rack trays achieves the highest performance per watt and lowest token cost for AI factories.
Microsoft and Mistral have expanded their strategic partnership with a multi-billion-dollar agreement to build AI infrastructure across Europe. Mistral will deploy thousands of Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs, and Microsoft will use that capacity for its cloud and AI services. Mistral's Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 models are now available in Microsoft Foundry, with Medium 3.5 also in Copilot Studio. The deal targets regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, allowing companies to run Mistral models through Azure Local in the cloud, on-premises, or offline. Microsoft President Brad Smith emphasized Europe's need for powerful AI without sacrificing data control.
Mistral AI has released Mistral Medium 3.5, a 128B dense model for coding and productivity tasks, now the default in Vibe and Le Chat. New remote agents in Vibe allow cloud-based coding sessions started from CLI or Le Chat, running in parallel. Le Chat introduces Work mode for handling complex multi-step tasks with tool integration.
Mistral AI launched Mistral Medium 3.5, a 128B dense model for coding and productivity tasks. It enables remote coding agents in Vibe that run in the cloud asynchronously. A new Work mode in Le Chat handles complex multi-step tasks using the model.
Mistral AI released Workflows, a new tool for enterprise AI orchestration now in public preview. Companies like ASML, ABANCA, and CMA-CGM use it for critical processes. The feature builds on Mistral Studio, supports Python development, and integrates with Le Chat for employee access.