CNRS Mandates Mistral AI Use Bans OpenAI and Anthropic

A post on X from the account @Fabien_Mikol quotes research engineer @eliebakouch and includes a generated headline stating that CNRS mandates Mistral AI use while banning OpenAI and Anthropic for researchers. The accompanying source summary describes France's CNRS as Europe's largest public research institution now requiring researchers to use Mistral models and prohibiting services from OpenAI and Anthropic. The post recommends following @Fabien_Mikol and tags the content as research. Elie Bakouch is identified in the post as an ML research engineer previously at Hugging Face who contributed to SmolLM and FineWeb and now trains LLMs at Prime Intellect. No further details on the policy appear in the packet.