Startup francese AI Mistral Ai selezionato dall’esercito del Lussemburgo

>**After the French armed forces, it’s now the Luxembourg Defense Ministry’s turn to bet on Mistral AI. A** ***Memorandum of Understanding*** **(MOU) has been signed and two major contracts have been awarded to one of the rising stars of artificial intelligence.**

>Approved on June 17 at the Paris Air Show, this MoU establishes a strategic partnership aimed at ”  *the adoption of artificial intelligence within the State and collaboration with public research institutions*  .” This partnership represents more than €44 million in contracts over five years and the opening of offices in Luxembourg for the French startup.

>”  *By choosing Mistral AI, the Luxembourg government is affirming its commitment to European strategic autonomy. We are proud of this partnership, which places AI at the service of demanding state data protection, while deploying our technology to public authorities*  ,” declared the French startup’s CEO, Arthur Mensch.

>This agreement resulted in two contracts, one for the State Information Technology Centre (CTIE) for €35.9 million and the other with the Luxembourg Army for €4.9 million. This provides access to high-performance large language models (LLM) on-site, ” *which constitutes an essential foundation for developing sovereign applications based on AI*  ,” notes the Luxembourg client. These models thus make it possible ”  *to complement and diversify the CTIE and Army’s AI tools and platforms*  .”

>From logistics to predictive equipment maintenance and from simulation to complex data analysis, the potential applications for the Luxembourg army are numerous. However, the army will focus its first concrete cases on administrative assistance and cybersecurity.

>The Luxembourg government will not say more about the activities of an army that ”  *ensure that its infrastructure is regularly adapted and its personnel are trained to enable the effective use of the technical resources available and necessary for its operations*  .” An expansion of the CTIE’s computing power is planned, mainly through the purchase of new-generation  *Graphics Processing Units for €1.5 million.*

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I’m not sure how I feel about AI useage in the military, but at least it’s european