All major cloud providers have data centers in Europe.

My perspective as a Fortune 500 IT solutions architect… why would I spend a few million dollars and a year of project time to build out local infrastructure that’ll already be outdated by the time it’s installed, when I can just hand my developers and data team permissions on Azure to be able to immediately access the same or better resources for a fraction of the cost? Scale is value, and cloud service providers will always have far greater scale.

This is probably great for Microsoft. Their investment got them low level code access and rights, but OpenAI competed with them for AI services. With OpenAI going more towards non-profit, and Sam now being hire-able, Microsoft may have inadvertently acquired the entire business portion of OpenAI.

Being Premium doesn’t mean it won’t be open source, it may just mean that it’s a branded, supported, and/or packaged version.

https://docs.mistral.ai/cloud-deployment/