{"id":1022637,"date":"2026-07-22T07:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022637"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:21:12","slug":"microsoft-to-fund-mistrals-european-ai-expansion-in-multibillion-dollar-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/microsoft-to-fund-mistrals-european-ai-expansion-in-multibillion-dollar-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to fund Mistral&#8217;s European AI expansion in multibillion-dollar deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft has agreed to spend billions of dollars on Mistral&#8217;s computing infrastructure in Europe under a deal that will also expand distribution of the French AI startup&#8217;s technology through the U.S. cloud and software giant, the companies said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the agreement, Microsoft \u200cAzure customers will \u2060be able to \u2060develop software using Mistral&#8217;s data centers in France, giving Microsoft more capacity in Europe and regulated industries an alternative to U.S.-controlled infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>Mistral, meanwhile, has added its AI models called Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 to Microsoft&#8217;s app builder known as Foundry. Microsoft Copilot Studio has brought on Medium 3.5 as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft has agreed to spend billions of dollars on Mistral&#8217;s computing infrastructure in Europe under a deal that will also expand distribution of the French AI startup&#8217;s technology through the U.S. cloud and software giant, the companies said on Tuesday. As part of the agreement, Microsoft \u200cAzure customers will \u2060be able to \u2060develop software using Mistral&#8217;s data centers in France, giving Microsoft more capacity in Europe and regulated industries an alternative to U.S.-controlled infrastructure. Mistral, meanwhile, has added its AI models called Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 to Microsoft&#8217;s app builder known as Foundry. Microsoft Copilot Studio has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022656,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022637\/revisions\/1022656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}