Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, and Mistral, a global frontier AI lab, have 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.
“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.”
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. 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.
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.
Developers 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.
“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.”
The partnership also expands the Cloudera Enterprise AI Ecosystem, reinforcing both companies' 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.
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.
