Collaboration brings Mistral’s frontier models and capabilities directly to Cloudera customers’ governed data, giving enterprises greater control, choice, and flexibility to build and deploy private AI anywhere

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, and Mistral, a global frontier AI lab, today announced a landmark strategic partnership to bring secure, sovereign AI directly to enterprise data wherever it resides.

Cloudera and Mistral will combine Cloudera’s hybrid data and AI platform with Mistral’s sovereign AI models to give enterprises a secure path to build, customize, and run AI using their own private data. The collaboration will enable organizations to bring intelligence directly to their data across cloud, on-premises, edge, sovereign, and air-gapped environments—without requiring sensitive information to leave their control.

For enterprises managing the world’s largest and most sensitive data estates, this approach provides greater control, choice, and flexibility over how and where AI runs. Organizations can run inference privately, customize AI using proprietary data, and deploy AI applications within their existing security and governance boundaries, while gaining greater control over the economics of AI at scale.

“Enterprise AI is entering a new phase where organizations need more than access to powerful models, they need the freedom to unlock specialized intelligence using their data, on their terms,” said Abhas Ricky, Chief Business Officer & GM, Applied AI at Cloudera. “Together with Mistral, we are giving enterprises the ability to run AI where their data lives, customize it with their own intellectual property, and maintain control over their data, infrastructure, and economics. That combination of intelligence and control is essential to moving AI from experimentation into production.”

Bringing Intelligence to the Data

For enterprises operating in highly regulated and data-intensive industries, moving sensitive or proprietary information to external AI services can introduce regulatory, security, and operational challenges.

Cloudera and Mistral are addressing these challenges by bringing secure, sovereign AI directly to the enterprise data perimeter.

Mistral’s suite of frontier models and tools will be integrated with Cloudera’s hybrid data and AI platform, enabling customers to run their own custom AI models and applications across 30 exabytes of data. Enterprises will have the deployment flexibility across public, private, on-premises, and fully air-gapped environments, while maintaining consistent governance and control over their context.

The partnership will span Mistral’s broad portfolio of frontier AI models and tools, including reasoning, chat, coding, document intelligence, and voice, giving Cloudera customers greater choice in how they apply AI to their enterprise data.

By enabling organizations to run inference within their own environments, the collaboration also gives customers greater flexibility over the economics of AI. Enterprises can choose the deployment model and infrastructure that best fit their workloads rather than depending exclusively on public API consumption models as AI usage scales.

From Private Inference to Proprietary Intelligence

Through the integration of Mistral Forge, a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge, organizations utilizing Cloudera’s platform will be able to customize and train models against large volumes of private enterprise data within controlled environments. For enterprises with petabytes of proprietary information, this creates an opportunity to transform decades of institutional data and domain expertise into differentiated AI while maintaining ownership and sovereignty over both the data and resulting intelligence.

Developers and practitioners will also be able to securely build AI-powered experiences using private enterprise data within local environments—from conversational access to governed data to AI-assisted software development and agentic workflows—without exposing sensitive business context or intellectual property to external environments.

Cloudera and Mistral also intend to collaborate on the next generation of AI at the edge, bringing increasingly capable inference closer to where enterprise data is created. This will enable organizations to explore intelligent applications across disconnected, latency-sensitive and resource-constrained environments where relying on centralized cloud infrastructure is not practical.

“Our mission is to make frontier AI available to enterprises without requiring them to give up control over their data, infrastructure, or intellectual property,” said Kamal Brar, SVP of Partnerships and Alliances at Mistral. “Cloudera manages some of the world’s most valuable enterprise data estates, making this partnership a powerful opportunity to bring our technology directly to where that data lives. Together, we can give customers the ability to build AI that reflects their own data and expertise and deploy it securely wherever their business requires.”

Expanding Choice for Enterprise AI

The partnership also expands the Cloudera Enterprise AI Ecosystem, through which Cloudera works with leading AI models, infrastructure, application, and technology providers to give customers flexibility in how they build and deploy enterprise AI.

Mistral adds a significant new dimension to that ecosystem by enabling customers to access and customize its models and AI capabilities directly alongside their governed enterprise data. The partnership reinforces both Cloudera’s and Mistral’s commitment to an open approach to enterprise AI, giving customers choice across models, infrastructure, and deployment environments rather than locking their data or AI strategy into a single technology stack.

The joint Cloudera and Mistral solutions will be available through Cloudera’s enterprise sales team and partner ecosystem, with additional integrations and capabilities rolling out over time. To learn more, visit Cloudera.com.

About Cloudera

Cloudera is the only hybrid data and AI platform company that large organizations trust to bring AI to their data anywhere it lives. Unlike other providers, Cloudera delivers a consistent cloud experience that converges public clouds, on-prem data centers, sovereign clouds, and the edge, leveraging a proven open-source foundation. As the pioneer in big data, Cloudera empowers businesses to apply AI and assert control over 100% of their data, in all forms, improving security, governance, and real-time and predictive insights. The world’s largest brands across all industries rely on Cloudera to transform decision-making and ultimately boost bottom lines, safeguard against threats, and save lives.

To learn more, visit Cloudera.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. ©2026 Cloudera and associated marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.  

About Mistral

Mistral is a global AI lab building state-of-the-art open-weight models, products and infrastructure that enable enterprises, public institutions and advanced industries to truly own, customize, and control their AI. Headquartered in France, Mistral has a strong international presence across Europe, North America and Asia.

Learn more at mistral.ai and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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