Company In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI. August 11, 2026 By Mistral AI Back to Blog 5 min read Share this post Copy url to clipboard Copied Thinking Summary Mistral is advancing AI sovereignty by offering enterprises and countries control over AI models, infrastructure, and compute capacity, ensuring regional compliance and reliability. The company is expanding open model access, introducing regional endpoints and priority tiers, and forming a coalition to secure long-term European AI compute capacity. With plans to build up to 1 GW of capacity by 2030, Mistral aims to provide a scalable, sovereign AI infrastructure that retains value and control for users. At Mistral, we believe every enterprise and country must be in control of the models it uses, choose where the intelligence runs, control the compute capacity to scale it, and retain its compounding value. …