Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions | TechCrunch

"Before the acquisition, Koyeb's platform already helped users deploy models from Mistral and others. In a blog post, Koyeb said its platform will continue operating. But its team and technology will now also help Mistral deploy models directly on clients' own hardware (on premises), optimize its use of GPUs, and help scale AI inference - the process of running a trained AI model to generate responses - according to a press release from Mistral."

"As part of the deal, Koyeb's 13 employees and its three co-founders, Yann Léger, Edouard Bonlieu, and Bastien Chatelard (pictured in 2020), are set to join the engineering team of Mistral, overseen by CTO and co-founder Timothée Lacroix. Under his leadership, Koyeb expects its platform to transition into a "core component" of Mistral Compute over the coming months."

"Founded in 2020 by three former employees of French cloud provider Scaleway, Koyeb aimed to help developers process data without worrying about server infrastructure - a concept known as serverless. This approach gained relevance as AI grew more demanding, also inspiring the recent launch of Koyeb Sandboxes, which provide isolated environments to deploy AI agents."

Mistral AI purchased Paris-based Koyeb to expand from LLM development into full-stack AI infrastructure. Koyeb provides serverless tooling that simplifies large-scale AI app deployment and offers Koyeb Sandboxes for isolated AI agent environments. Koyeb's platform already supported deploying models from Mistral and others and will continue operating. Koyeb's team and technology will join Mistral's engineering organization to enable on-premises model deployment, optimize GPU usage, and scale AI inference. Koyeb's 13 employees and three co-founders will integrate into Mistral Compute, with the platform expected to become a core component of Mistral's cloud offering.

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