TotalEnergies Partners with French AI Startup Mistral to Boost Energy Efficiency
TotalEnergies, the French oil and gas major, announced a new partnership with French AI startup Mistral to develop digital tools aimed at enhancing the performance of its energy business and industrial assets, improving energy efficiency, and reducing environmental impact.
The collaboration has already commenced with joint meetings at the companies’ existing facilities, though no new physical laboratory will be created. Together, they plan to develop an AI-powered assistant to support TotalEnergies in project development, operational decision-making to lower emissions, and improving customer support solutions focused on energy savings.
TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne highlighted AI’s transformative potential for energy systems and underscored the partnership as part of the company’s broader ambition to foster a European technological ecosystem.
Mistral recently launched Europe’s first AI reasoning model, designed to use logical thinking to generate responses, positioning itself among the leading AI innovators alongside U.S. and Chinese competitors.
Since 2022, TotalEnergies has actively engaged with various AI startups to enhance profitability and operational efficiency in its electricity business. Past initiatives include algorithm-driven predictive maintenance of wind turbines, optimization of electricity trading via advanced weather modeling, and improved digital planning for renewable energy farms.
Additionally, TotalEnergies experimented with Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot by providing employees six months’ access to identify the most effective applications within the company, as revealed by Pouyanne at the AI Action Summit in Paris earlier this year.

