I have yet to see someone recommending Mistral for anything tbh.
We are using it for "old-fashioned" use cases (sentiment, classification) for some clients here in Europe. Mistral Small 3.2 8bit is good enough for most well-defined cases.
It may just be greenwashing to check “AI sovereignty” off the list.
Their Voxtral[1] speech models are really good.
[1] https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral