Paris-based Mistral AI has announced a multi-year partnership with one of the world’s leading news agencies — Agence France-Presse (AFP). This collaboration will integrate a large volume of AFP’s text news into Mistral’s conversational AI assistant, Le Chat. The news will become available to Le Chat users in the coming weeks, improving the chatbot’s ability to provide accurate, up-to-date, and multilingual responses.
Le Chat will now have access to AFP’s daily news, which covers around 2,300 articles in six languages — French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Arabic. In addition, the AFP archive will be available, starting from 1983. This agreement does not include visual content such as photos and videos, as Mistral focuses on large language models rather than image generation.
For Mistral AI, this is the first major partnership with a media organization, putting the company in a competitive position with giants like OpenAI and Google in the generative AI space. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch emphasized that this collaboration is especially valuable for business clients who need verified and sourced information for research and documentation. The integration also aligns with Mistral’s ambition to offer a multilingual and multicultural alternative in the AI market.
