Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack

94 points by doener 2 hours ago on hackernews | 16 comments

MeteorMarc | an hour ago

Nice, also note that ASML is a big investor in Mistral AI, which made the industrial AI ambitions already more credible. https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/asml-mistra...
can you explain how it makes it more credible? is the assertion that asml is using mistral as part of its research/manufacturing?

spiderfarmer | an hour ago

ASML knows like no other the importance of doing research in secrecy.

SyneRyder | an hour ago

From the link:

"...a long-term collaboration agreement to explore the use of AI models across ASML’s product portfolio as well as research, development and operations..."

ASML is one of the clients Mistral keeps referencing, for example here: https://mistral.ai/news/forge But it isn't clear exactly what they've been doing together. The Forge page only mentions they "train models on the proprietary data that powers their most complex systems and future-defining technologies."

john_strinlai | an hour ago

the assertion is that the people at asml are likely in a good position to assess ai use in complex industry
ASML is one of the bigger investor of Mistral

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerat...

SilverElfin | an hour ago

I was skeptical when I saw the headline. And I still am. But AI for manufacturing and industry seems like a good way to differentiate and focus on a vertical that others are ignoring.

What I am curious about is what has Emmi actually built? Who uses it? I was hoping to see something like a demo on the website but couldn’t find anything concrete.

ChemSpider | an hour ago

"Early 2025: First enterprise contracts secured" "Today: Powering Fortune 500 engineering teams" - I guess that is all that is publicly available for now.

KeplerBoy | 36 minutes ago

They seem to be doing let's say case studies on how AI based simulations can help industry.

They did injection molding for example, and I'm sure they're testing similar approach to everything which can be modeled by PDEs, which is well pretty much everything ever of engineering interest (I'm assuming this is somehow connected to a research project funded by Engel, one of the leading injection molding machine companies, located in the same Region): https://www.emmi.ai/models/neuralmould

ChemSpider | an hour ago

Built what you want to use yourself. AI for engineering and physics sounds like the perfect product a company like ASML (Mistral investor) could use.

bradley13 | an hour ago

I'm glad Mistral is doing well, but...

I am so tired of M&A. Buy instead of competing or - heaven forfend - cooperating.

aborsy | an hour ago

It’s interesting that a French company can compete at international level to some extent, given the regulations, labor laws and generally the business unfriendly environment. I suspect they capitalize on the preference of European governments to use EU products, but might be wrong.

maelito | 44 minutes ago

This comment is ridiculous. France's economy is bigger than 90 % of "unregulated" countries.

European regulations help protect from USA's tech monopolies. French labor laws and social security and state-funded scientific schools helped build one of the most competent international AI scientist generation.

All of europe got crushed by the US on the domain of internet. "Regulated" or not.

linkregister | 30 minutes ago

Indeed, French labor laws and their downstream effects have pushed the most talented French researchers to US-based frontier labs, thus building one of the most competent cohorts of international AI scientists.

olivermuty | 24 minutes ago

Do you really believe this? Lol

Could you please elaborate what labour law drives the labour out of france?

Abbreviated title leaves out key detail: "Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack for Industrial Engineering"