Mistral AI today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Physics AI pioneer Emmi AI to strengthen its position as the leading AI transformation partner for industrial enterprises.
Mistral AI is building leading AI systems to accelerate engineering and manufacturing globally. As part of this mission, the company is extending its models’ capabilities to understand and model physics; and is enabling AI agents to use existing engineering tools. With the acquisition of Emmi AI, Mistral significantly enriches its products and expertise in this domain, aiming to accelerate the work of engineering solution teams worldwide.
Founded in Austria, Emmi AI has quickly emerged as one of the world’s most ambitious AI companies, leading a revolution at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industrial engineering. Its team has developed a unique expertise in Physics AI, providing state-of-the-art large engineering models. The company empowers industrial players to accelerate their engineering workflows and product design cycles, replace multi-day computations with real-time simulations, and build digital twins to optimize asset operations.
Emmi’s co-founders and its team of more than 30 researchers and engineers, among the leading experts in Engineering AI globally, will join Mistral AI’s Science and Applied AI teams in May 2026.
With this acquisition, Mistral AI accelerates its investment in Europe, in particular in Austria, Germany and Lithuania where the Emmi team is based. It will further hire locally among the best experts in the field.
“This strategic acquisition cements Mistral AI’s leadership in industrial AI and positions us as the partner of choice for manufacturers in high-stakes sectors like aerospace, automotive, or semiconductors. It empowers our customers with a fully integrated platform to solve complex challenges, transform core R&D processes, and accelerate high-value innovation”, said Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO, Mistral AI.
“This acquisition marks a turning point for industrial innovation. By engineering the first comprehensive AI stack fueled by Physics AI, we are set to deliver real-time simulations and sophisticated digital twins. We aim to break through long-standing technical barriers that have slowed progress for decades, enabling our partners to solve the world’s most daunting engineering challenges”, added Guillaume Lample, co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Mistral AI.
Johannes Brandstetter, Emmi AI’s co-founder and Chief Science Officer: “This is a pivotal moment for the future of industrial engineering and the broader AI4Science movement. At Emmi AI, we have dedicated ourselves to solving high-stakes physical challenges, ranging from the real-time stabilization of power grids to the intricate simulation of injection molding and automotive safety testing. By integrating our expertise into Mistral’s world-class AI ecosystem, we are positioned to revolutionize core R&D. Together, we are providing the foundational intelligence required to design and build the next generation of aircraft, vehicles, and semiconductors”.
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI is a pioneer company in generative artificial intelligence, empowering the world with the tools to build and benefit from the most transformative technology of our time. The company democratizes AI through high-performance, optimized, and cutting-edge open-source models, products and solutions as well as end-to-end infrastructure with Mistral Compute. Headquartered in France and independent, Mistral AI defends a decentralized and transparent approach to technology, with a strong global presence in the United States, United Kingdom, and Singapore.
