Mistral to explore designing own chips, CEO says, as it ramps up infrastructure build

Sebastian Ujică

French startup Mistral AI is exploring designing its own chips and may eventually develop them, CEO Arthur Mensch told CNBC. It is the first comment made by Mensch about Mistral's semiconductor ambitions, underscoring how the company is looking to control more of its infrastructure as it competes with U.S. heavyweights OpenAI and Anthropic. "Of course, it is interesting," Mensch said about the prospect of Mistral developing its own chips, adding that the company is not ruling it out . Mensch