Mistral AI, a French company, recently entered into a deal to acquire Austrian start-up Emmi AI. This move is part of a larger strategy to expand Mistral’s offering to industrial customers in Europe.
Founded in 2024, Emmi AI develops models to improve operations across various sectors including aviation, energy, semiconductors and automotive, using its engineering capabilities to adapt and train AI based on data provided by customers.
It raised €15 million in an Austrian funding round in 2025, pumping cash into models dealing with complex areas such as airflow and heat transfer, Reuters reported.
In a statement announcing the sale to Mistral, chief scientist Johannes Brandstetter said the tie-up will “change the scale of what we can attempt”.
“Mistral brings a world-class science team, a fast-growing applied science organisation, the compute we need and enterprise customers who want engineering transformations”.
He indicated the possibilities now open to it were unthinkable one or two years ago. “The signals are unambiguous. The time to turn computer-aided design, computer-aided engineering, workflow automation and digital twins upside down is now”.
For Mistral, the deal complements a push by the European Commission around industrial AI and manufacturing, which was cited in October 2025 by the organisation as a critical AI sector.
In its statement, Mistral said as part of its mission to build leading AI systems that accelerate engineering and manufacturing globally, “we’re extending our models’ capabilities to understand and model physics; and are enabling AI agents to use existing engineering tools”.
It added Emmi AI’s 35 person team will join Mistral from this month onwards.
Value of the deal was not disclosed.
Source: Mobile World Live
Image Credit: Mistral AI
