Mistral AI secures $830M in debt financing to build a 44 MW data center near Paris with 13,800 Nvidia GPUs, explores custom chip designs, and launches Vibe.

Mistral's semiconductor ambitions underscore the French startup's bid to control more of its infrastructure as it competes with OpenAI and Anthropic.

Mistral AI secured $830M in debt financing for a new Paris-area data center with 13,800 NVIDIA GPUs, targeting 200 MW of European AI compute by 2027.