Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack
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MeteorMarc
3 hours ago
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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...
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kergonath
1 hour ago
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ASML is the flashy, public-facing partner. Mistral is also working with the French government and defense industry for applications that are unlikely to be publicly announced, but are bound to bring in much more money.
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pm90
3 hours ago
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can you explain how it makes it more credible? is the assertion that asml is using mistral as part of its research/manufacturing?
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mtct88
2 hours ago
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ASML is one of the bigger investor of Mistral

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

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SyneRyder
3 hours ago
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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."

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spiderfarmer
3 hours ago
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ASML knows like no other the importance of doing research in secrecy.
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robotresearcher
18 minutes ago
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Maybe they could clue in the defense and intelligence sectors.
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john_strinlai
2 hours ago
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the assertion is that the people at asml are likely in a good position to assess ai use in complex industry
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xnx
2 hours ago
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Abbreviated title leaves out key detail: "Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack for Industrial Engineering"
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reenorap
17 minutes ago
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Is Mistral still competitive? I completely forgot they existed because of how much press the Big 3 get (Google, Anthropic and OpenAI).
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lanthissa
8 minutes ago
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mistral was never competitive and is getting less so, but that doesn't matter they cant be allowed to fail and have a long time to find their lane. They're smart and have an audience of like 600m people and the largest governments by spending who would use them if they were good enough.
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ChemSpider
2 hours ago
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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.
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SilverElfin
3 hours ago
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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.

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mediaman
10 minutes ago
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They built a transformer-based mold flow simulator. Mold flow analysis is used in injection molding to predict whether and how the plastic will fill a cavity. It's helpful to make sure the mold will actually be able to fill, and to try to engineer lighter weight or different geometry.

Mold flow simulators already exist, but they're slow. So if you're a mold engineer, and you want to try different material properties, each run takes time.

By making this into a transformer (no idea what that model looks like) it can run pretty fast, because it's not mathematically solving it, it's running a learned function approximator. So for the mold engineer, suddenly they can just change values around and get pretty fast analysis.

They appear to not be selling it as a product per se, but partnered with a German company called Simcon to sell it, whose website lists it as a preview, so it's unclear how good it is compared to conventional simulations.

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KeplerBoy
2 hours ago
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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

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I_am_tiberius
24 minutes ago
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I assume it's more a talent acquisition as the company only exists for 18 months or so and you can't acquire enterprise customers that quickly, not even as an AI vendor.
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ChemSpider
2 hours ago
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"Early 2025: First enterprise contracts secured" "Today: Powering Fortune 500 engineering teams" - I guess that is all that is publicly available for now.
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bradley13
2 hours ago
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I'm glad Mistral is doing well, but...

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

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smt88
56 minutes ago
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The reason we have so much M&A is that large companies can’t really innovate, especially when they’re publicly traded and have shareholders who hate risk-taking
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tormeh
47 minutes ago
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Mistral is not large, though.
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aborsy
2 hours ago
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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.
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maelito
2 hours ago
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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.

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linkregister
1 hour ago
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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.
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kergonath
56 minutes ago
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This has more to do with the humongous amounts of money sloshing around in VC funds and the disproportionate importance of the US in the global financial markets. They just followed the money. Those who are successful in securing funding then tend to come back eventually.
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rvnx
15 minutes ago
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Curious to see, it sounds like a rather pretty irrational decision. I don’t see many YC companies suddenly running toward France after securing funding.
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olivermuty
1 hour ago
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Do you really believe this? Lol

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

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retinaros
1 hour ago
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Taxation, admin hell, government involvement led by highly uncompetent unelected people that got to make decision on the sovereignty and future of Companies. The only chance for mistral is to escape the grasp of france and its low iq visionless political “elites” or else theyll endup like dailymotion.

Building a company in france and europe is hell even mistral ceo said this a few days ago in front of french officials

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vrganj
53 minutes ago
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As somebody who's built a company in Europe, I don't know what you're talking about. I suspect you don't, either.
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rvnx
12 minutes ago
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What was the jurisdiction ? France is among the most difficult countries for entrepreneurs in the EU (maybe the Germany too, with their written paperwork and rigidity).

In top of high taxes, there is a very adversarial administration and a philosophy of “I’ve told you, you should never have started this project”.

In the baltics it is easy for example, but your experience can vary a lot depending on the country as the EU business environment is not uniform.

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retinaros
1 hour ago
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Its not ridiculous but accurate. You right the scientist generation is huge from europe but many leave europe… Brain drain in france is huge nowadays because of what op states.

And if you look at mistral biggest customers it would be lying not to say they are done through political ties. No shame in saying that. US gov and agencies created FAANG through those same mecanism

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pezgrande
56 minutes ago
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I have yet to see someone recommending Mistral for anything tbh.
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phillc73
42 minutes ago
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Their Voxtral[1] speech models are really good.

[1] https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral

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