French AI startup Mistral is considering designing its own chips, CNBC reported on May 28 local time.

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch (아서 멘쉬) said an in-house chip could meaningfully reduce token distribution costs. He said the time will come when the company makes its own chips and that it should. He said it currently relies on Nvidia and that Nvidia is a great partner.

Mistral also announced the establishment of inference-focused data centres in France. The company said it is investing a total of 4 billion euros in data centres in France and Sweden to expand computing capacity. Mensch said Europe is lagging in building infrastructure and the company is investing to narrow the gap.

Mistral also launched its enterprise agent platform Vibe that autonomously performs tasks such as document writing and coding. Mistral CTO Timothee Lacroix (티모테 라크루아) said Vibe is an agent platform that puts frontier AI into practical work. He said when users only give instructions, Vibe thinks, drafts and delivers the finished output.

Mistral is targeting 1 billion euros in revenue in 2026. That would be a big increase from 200 million euros last year, but it still trails OpenAI and Anthropic by a wide margin.