News Summary:
On March 19, 2026, Storm Reply supported Bosch Rexroth in developing an AI-based service assistant for plant maintenance, enabling technicians to enter symptoms or error codes into a chat interface for instant, tailored guidance, thereby eliminating time-consuming searches and lengthy support calls. Also on March 19, Reply formalized a partnership with Mistral AI to scale sovereign and enterprise-grade generative AI solutions. This collaboration combines Mistral AI’s high-performance models with Reply’s expertise in designing and customizing Large Language Models using proprietary and domain-specific data, focusing on data control, sensitive information protection, and compliance for organizations in highly regulated sectors such as public administration, defense, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and energy & utilities. Earlier the same day, Sail Reply, a Reply Group company, announced its collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Mistral AI on "Apollo," a Large Language Model for Ancient Greek texts, designed to propel research on hundreds of thousands of ancient papyri and inscriptions. These developments follow Reply's initial partnership agreement with Mistral AI on March 18, which established a shared vision to accelerate the adoption of local, customizable, and secure generative AI solutions, emphasizing deployment on European infrastructures.