2025 - Exploring the AI Initiatives of Free, Orange, and Bouygues: What’s Their Goal?

2025 - Exploring the AI Initiatives of Free, Orange, and Bouygues: What’s Their Goal?

Telecom operators in France, including Bouygues Telecom and Orange, are rapidly adopting AI innovations. Bouygues Telecom is offering a year-long subscription to Perplexity Pro, an AI-driven search engine, to all customers. Meanwhile, Orange has partnered with Mistral AI to improve network infrastructure and performance, although immediate customer benefits are not expected. Free has already set the trend by providing its users with complimentar…

Orange, Mistral AI join forces in Europe AI push

Orange teamed with fellow French company Mistral AI to boost adoption of AI in Europe, with the pair pledging to work together to design the best network infrastructure to accommodate the technology. In a statement, the companies described the partnership as groundbreaking, based on a shared ambition to bolster network infrastructure for AI. R&D teams at both companies will “work hand-in-hand in a spirit of open innovation”, assessing the impact…

A shepherd's response to the shepherdess. After Free, which offers 12 months of access to Le Chat Pro, Bouygues Telecom responds with its own AI promotion. The operator has just announced 12 months of Perplexity Pro at no additional cost for all its subscribers.

Free joins European artificial intelligence champion Mistral AI in offering an AI assistant to all its mobile subscribers.