France to Hire Mistral for Sovereign AI, Excluding OpenAI

France's Public Accounts Minister David Amiel said the government plans to hire sovereign AI firms like Mistral and explicitly excludes OpenAI from its plans, with Cohere and others potentially competing for the contract.

2026-08-18 ~ 2026-08-19 · 3 related posts

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