CollabDays Netherlands 2025

21/06/2025, van der valk vianen
Vianen, Netherlands

Mistral: European AI between USA and China

Can Europe AI? You have probably heard about "Le Chat", and AI chat similar in its functionality to ChatGPT or Claude.ai. But, Mistral AI, French company behind "Le Chat" has much more to offer, and at the moment, together with German DeepL, it is the best what Europe has to offer in the AI arena. Also, Mistral AI is committed to open-source development and has released several models under open-source licenses, which makes it a competitor not only to Open AI and Anthropic, but also to DeepSeek and Meta's Llama. This will be a deep dive session into Mistral: it's capabilities, it's lovely French quirks, and how can you make the use of it. In this session we will discuss: - Mistral AI basics - Hosting and consuming Mistral AI (Mistral APIs, Azure AI, self-hosting) - Using Microsoft tech stack (Semantic Kernel and Microsoft AI Extensions) to work with Mistral AI - Real life example of using Mistral AI within a product development on the example of run.events À bientôt!