Comment by hobofan

Regulation != censorship. (Apart from that, Mistral has Shieldstral[0] for adding policy enforcement).

With it's general approach of Open Weights, and being able to be deployed on-premise (/private/public cloud), they are a viable solution for your typical European enterprise, that has to comply with traditional (non-AI) regulation. With the NIS2 directive the amount of those companies is also significantly expanding.

We[1] are in the same market as Mistral, and among our customers, the go-to-solution of MS Copilot is typically performing badly, and the typical SaaS solutions are not even given a consideration, which is why they are reaching for on-premise-first solutions.

[0]: https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/

[1]: https://github.com/EratoLab/erato