Mistral announced on September 28, 2026, that it was opening a Munich hub focused on Physics AI and Industrial AI. The company said the hub would bring together specialist research teams and applied engineers to work with enterprise partners.
Three separate partner workstreams
Mistral described three distinct areas of work. Its collaboration with BMW involves crash simulations and engineering AI. Its work with Siemens Energy concerns industrial AI applications. A research partnership with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) aims to develop digital twins for automotive aerodynamics using the university’s wind-tunnel facilities.
What the TUM research aims to combine
The TUM project aims to combine real-time sensor data from wind-tunnel experiments with offline computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. CFD uses numerical calculations to model how fluids, including air, move around objects. The goal is to use those two inputs to produce real-time predictions of automotive aerodynamics through digital twins—computer-based representations of physical systems.
Mistral’s stated Physics AI work also covers engineering problems such as material deformation, thermal behavior and mechanical stress. The company said simulations for some physical-engineering problems can take days per run.
The Emmi AI team and Munich hiring
Mistral said it acquired Emmi AI in May 2026, bringing more than 30 physicists, researchers and engineers into the company. The team’s expertise includes computational fluid dynamics, structural mechanics and multiphysics simulations.
Mistral also said it was recruiting in the Munich region for research, engineering and applied AI roles.
