
French AI firm Mistral utilizes Chinese-developed model amid European innovation lag
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Zhipu (Z.ai) was included on the US entity list in 2025 due to national security concerns regarding military modernization. Europe has struggled to match US and Chinese investment levels in AI innovation.
Mistral’s model of choice is GLM-5.2, an open-weight large language model developed by Zhipu, also known as Z.ai, one of China’s six “AI tiger” companies, included since 2025 on the US’ entity list because of national security concerns regarding military modernisation.
Despite a deluge of political chatter about creating a sovereign European AI offering, the bloc has lagged both the US and China in investment and innovation.
Geoeconomics expert Shahin Vallee from the German Council on Foreign Relations said that a pivot to “AI adoption rather than innovation” therefore represented “the right strategy for Mistral and for Europe”.

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