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Mistral has opened a new hub in Munich to advance industrial AI in Germany, the EU’s largest industrial economy. The hub will house specialised research teams dedicated to Physics AI and Industrial AI, alongside applied engineers serving enterprise partners directly. Mistral is not positioning itself as a software vendor but as a long‑term technological partner. German industry, public institutions and organisations already have access to Mistral’s full AI stack, which includes frontier language models, Physics AI capabilities, enterprise deployment and sovereign compute infrastructure under one roof. To secure Europe’s AI sovereignty, Mistral will build one gigawatt of European compute capacity by 2030 while continuing to advance frontier model development at full speed. The stack is described as genuinely sovereign because its open‑weight architecture allows customers to run models on their own infrastructure, trained on their data, operated under European law with full auditability and no data leaving the organization. Mistral’s new Munich hub will work with BMW on crash simulations and with Siemens Energy on industrial AI applications, aiming to create a blueprint for Physics AI in European heavy industry. The company has also formed a research partnership with the Technical University Munich, using TUM’s wind tunnel facilities to develop digital twins for automotive aerodynamics in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Nikolaus A. Adams. The project fuses real‑time experimental sensor data with offline computational fluid dynamics simulations to deliver highly accurate aerodynamic predictions in real time. Mistral’s investment in Germany is part of a broader strategy to support the German industry in mastering demanding AI applications and to drive the next phase of sovereign European AI.