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French AI startup Mistral on Tuesday announced it’s launching its first reasoning model to compete take rivals like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.Unlike the other reasoning models, Mistral’s new model will bring something fresh to the table that its competitors don’t have: the ability to think through problems in multiple languages.“We’re announcing in a couple of hours our new reasoning model, which is very much competitive with all the others and has the specificity of being able to reason in multiple languages,” CEO Arthur Mensch told CNBC in an interview during a fireside chat at London Tech Week.Mistral is launching its First Reasoning Model to Challenge OpenAI and DeepSeekThe launch puts Mistral head-to-head with some serious competition. OpenAI’s o1 model has been available to ChatGPT users since late last year, while DeepSeek’s R1 represents China’s entry into the reasoning model space. But Mistral thinks it has found a gap in the market.Reasoning models work differently from regular AI chatbots. Instead of just spitting out answers, they work through complex problems step by step, showing their logical thought process. Think of it like watching someone solve a math problem by writing out each step rather than just giving you the final answer.However, Apple’s latest research paper suggests that AI reasoning capabilities may not live up to the hype. The company’s researchers published a paper called “The Illusion of Thinking” that’s shaking up assumptions about these models

This effort is part of the tech giant’s effort to foster trust among its cloud customers as it sells them AI products from companies like OpenAI and xAI, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (June 8). Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s head of Responsible AI, told the FT the company would soon add a “safety” category to its “model leaderboard,” a feature it created recently for developers to rank iterations from providers including China’s DeepSeek and France’s Mistral. The leaderboard, which is accessible to clients using the Azure Foundry developer platform, is expected to influence which AI models and applications are purchased via Microsoft

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Mistral AI unveiled a comprehensive enterprise coding assistant Wednesday, marking the French artificial intelligence company’s most aggressive push yet into the corporate software development market dominated by Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and other Silicon Valley rivals.The new product, called Mistral Code, bundles the company’s latest AI models with integrated development environment plugins and on-premise deployment options specifically designed for large enterprises with strict security requirements. The launch directly challenges existing coding assistants by offering what the company says is unprecedented customization and data sovereignty.“Our most significant features are that we propose more customization and to serve our models on premise,” said Baptiste Rozière, a research scientist at Mistral AI and former Meta researcher who helped develop the original Llama language model, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. “For customization, we can specialize our models for the customer’s codebase, which can make a huge difference in practice to get the right completions for workflows that are specific to the customer.”The enterprise focus reflects Mistral’s broader strategy to differentiate itself from OpenAI and other American competitors by emphasizing data privacy and European regulatory compliance. Unlike typical software-as-a-service coding tools, Mistral Code allows companies to deploy the entire AI stack within their own infrastructure, ensuring that proprietary code never leaves corporate servers.“With on-prem, we can serve the model on the customer’s hardware,” Rozière explained