As enterprises continue to expand AI initiatives, demand is growing for secure, scalable, and transparent AI solutions. CI&T has announced a strategic multi-year partnership with Mistral to help organizations accelerate enterprise AI adoption through open-weight large language models (LLMs), private AI infrastructure, and AI-driven business transformation.
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CI&T and Mistral Join Forces for Enterprise AI
CI&T has entered a strategic partnership with Mistral to help enterprises deploy advanced AI systems using open-weight large language models and private AI infrastructure. The collaboration combines CI&T's AI deployment expertise with Mistral's frontier AI technology to provide organizations with secure, scalable, and customizable AI solutions designed for enterprise environments.
As Mistral's preferred partner across Latin America, CI&T will deliver AI implementations tailored to regional business requirements while supporting global enterprises seeking greater operational intelligence and AI-driven transformation.
"With a shared vision for AI, CI&T and Mistral are expanding what's possible for organizations," said Cesar Gon, CEO of CI&T. "This partnership builds on our AI capabilities by integrating Mistral's technology into our ecosystem, enabling clients to unlock new levels of innovation, drive strategic impact, and take AI to the next level with confidence and agility."
Supporting Secure and Scalable AI Deployment
The partnership is designed to make enterprise AI adoption more accessible and cost-effective by leveraging open-weight LLMs and private AI stacks that operate within organizations' existing technology environments. This approach enables businesses to maintain greater transparency, governance, and performance while scaling generative AI initiatives.
By integrating customizable AI models with enterprise-grade implementation expertise, the collaboration aims to help organizations accelerate AI deployment while meeting security and operational requirements.
“By partnering with a tech transformation leader like CI&T, we are enabling organizations to integrate next-generation AI directly into their core operations," said Marjorie Janiewicz, Chief Revenue Officer at Mistral. “Our customizable models, combined with CI&T's enterprise expertise, will ensure enterprises deploy AI that is secure and tailored to their needs, unlocking a new wave of innovation across industries.”
Advancing the Agentic Enterprise
The partnership brings together CI&T's experience in AI-driven transformation, application modernization, agentic software development, and enterprise consulting with Mistral's open-weight AI models. Together, the companies aim to modernize software development lifecycles, accelerate AI transformation projects, and help organizations evolve toward agentic enterprise operations powered by intelligent automation.
The joint offerings are expected to support enterprises across industries as they expand generative AI capabilities while improving operational efficiency and business outcomes.
About Mistral
Mistral 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 defends a decentralized and transparent approach to technology, with a strong global presence in the United States, United Kingdom, and Singapore. Learn more at www.mistral.ai.
About CI&T
Through AI deployment, CI&T helps large enterprises move from AI ambition to measurable business impact, combining business strategy, AI-native execution, and IP-based solutions as the global tech-integrated business solutions partner. With a 30-year track record of helping clients navigate change, the company delivers accelerated outcomes through deep expertise across agentic SDLC, application modernization, data & AI, martech, professional services and business strategy and building. CI&T's proprietary AI system, CI&T FLOW, and its methodology, Lean AI, boost team productivity and ensure fast, efficient, and scalable results. With more than 8,000 AI Builders across 11 countries, CI&T serves 100+ large enterprises and fast-growth clients worldwide.
