Mistral Adds Deep-Research and Enterprise Tools to Le Chat Chatbot

French artificial-intelligence start-up Mistral AI on Thursday rolled out a sweeping upgrade to its Le Chat chatbot, adding a “deep research” mode designed to plan queries, scour the web and synthesise findings. The release also brings native multilingual reasoning, advanced image-editing tools and a new Projects workspace that clusters related chats and documents. The update is available across Le Chat’s Free, Pro, Team and Enterprise tiers, but Mistral is aiming the package squarely at corporate customers. Head of product Elisa Salamanca said the software can connect to sensitive enterprise data on-premises rather than in the public cloud, a pitch to banks, defence contractors and government agencies wary of cloud-hosted rivals such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Le Chat now supports voice prompts via Voxtral, Mistral’s open-source audio model introduced earlier this week. Voxtral handles transcription and reasoning in multiple languages, complementing the written multilingual capabilities added today. Mistral says the combined features move Le Chat closer to a full-stack productivity suite and position the Paris-based company to compete more directly with the sector’s leaders.