French AI startup Mistral AI has announced Le Chat Enterprise, a comprehensive AI assistant platform designed for organizations, powered by their new Mistral Medium 3 model. The platform aims to address common enterprise AI challenges such as tool fragmentation, insecure knowledge integration, and slow return on investment by providing a unified solution for organizational work.
Le Chat Enterprise offers several key features rolling out over the next two weeks, including enterprise search capabilities, agent builders, custom data and tool connectors, document libraries, and custom models. The platform supports integration with popular enterprise tools like Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Calendar, and Gmail, with more connectors planned.
Privacy and control are emphasized as central benefits. Organizations can deploy Le Chat in various environments: self-hosted, in public or private clouds, or as a service hosted in Mistral’s cloud. The platform adheres to strict access control lists to ensure data protection and provides comprehensive audit logging.
The underlying Mistral Medium 3 model appears to deliver impressive performance metrics. According to Mistral, it offers more than 90% of Claude 3.7 Sonnet’s benchmark performance at significantly lower cost—$0.40 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens (versus Sonnet’s $3/$15 pricing). The company claims the model outperforms larger alternatives in coding tests and performs well across multiple languages.
Deployment options and availability
Le Chat Enterprise is available now in the Google Cloud Marketplace, with Azure AI and AWS Marketplace listings coming soon. The model is accessible via Mistral’s La Plateforme API and Amazon Sagemaker, with support coming for IBM WatsonX, NVIDIA NIM, Azure AI Foundry, and Google Cloud Vertex.
For individuals and small teams, Mistral is also rolling out improvements to its Le Chat Pro and Team plans. Users can try Le Chat at chat.mistral.ai or download mobile apps without needing a credit card.
The company’s European origin might appeal to organizations concerned about data sovereignty and compliance with EU regulations like GDPR and the EU AI Act, particularly those wary of models from Chinese developers.
With this launch, Mistral appears to be making a strategic push into the enterprise AI market, leveraging efficient model performance and privacy-focused features to differentiate from larger competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Sources: Mistral, VentureBeat, TechCrunch