Mistral to explore designing own chips, CEO says, as it ramps up infrastructure build

Mistral AI, a French startup competing with OpenAI and Anthropic, is exploring the design of its own semiconductor chips to reduce costs and gain more control over its infrastructure, though it currently relies on Nvidia chips. The company is also expanding data centers in France and Sweden, and launching a new enterprise platform called Vibe that uses agentic AI (systems that can autonomously complete tasks like coding and drafting) to help customers with work tasks.