France’s Mistral AI, a prominent European artificial intelligence company, officially announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Vienna-based Emi AI.
The main motivation behind this revelation is that the company is working to optimize its services for industrial customers across Europe. Technology company Emmi AI has reportedly raised €15 million in Austria’s largest funding round of 2025. The company specializes in models adept at handling difficult problems such as air flow, heat transfer, and material stress.
According to Reutersthis agreement aims to advance a fundamental approach centered around the European customer base, along with engineering and manufacturing tasks. Industrial AI plays an important role in reindustrialization.
The European Commission has named manufacturing among the key areas for AI, as part of a major effort to reduce the European Union’s dependence on US and Chinese technology.
It is important to note that Mistral designs solutions around the needs of its clients, building a complex AI system that can collaboratively observe the production and logistics data of its robotic arms.
The company has demonstrated its collaboration with ASML, and Mistral-powered EUV lithography machines are now using foundational models to make decisions to rationalize, diagnose, and reduce waste on expensive silicon wafers.
In this regard, ASML CFO Roger Dassen said: “It just saves us 10 hours of downtime on very expensive equipment.”
The company has revealed that its purpose-built models are trained on company-provided data and aims to outperform mass-market solutions trained on common datasets, highlighting Europe’s centuries-old manufacturing expertise as a key advantage.
The acquisition strengthens Mistral’s position as an important partner for manufacturers in sectors such as aerospace, automotive and semiconductors.
