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Investing.com -- French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is negotiating to raise approximately €3 billion ($3.5 billion) at a valuation of about €20 billion, according to a Friday report by Bloomberg. The funding round would provide the Paris-based company with resources as it competes in the computing race against rivals in the US and China.

The discussions with investors remain in early stages and terms could still change, the report said. The valuation may increase based on investor demand. Mistral was valued at €11.7 billion when it raised funds in September.

ASML Holding NV is the company's largest shareholder. The Dutch firm invested €1.3 billion and acquired an 11% stake in Mistral during last year's funding round.

Mistral was founded in 2023 by researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta Platforms Inc. The company positions itself as Europe's response to Silicon Valley's leadership in artificial intelligence. Mistral operates as an infrastructure provider for European governments and companies, constructing cloud-computing facilities it manages in France and Sweden.

The company has marketed its AI services for engineering and manufacturing applications, securing agreements with major European industrial companies including Airbus SE and BMW AG.

Mistral has also presented European banks and other institutions with its alternative to Anthropic's Mythos, an AI model designed to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Chief Executive Officer Arthur Mensch described this capability as a national security risk last month. "We must have control over this technology," he said.

Previous investors in Mistral include France's state bank Bpifrance and US venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz.

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Airbus, Technip Energies, Safran, and Tereos have created a joint venture called Rebound to build a large Sustainable Aviation Fuel plant in Northern France. The project plans to use the Alcohol to Jet process to produce around 160,000 tons of SAF each year. The venture has already secured a port site, positioning it as one of Europe's larger planned SAF facilities.

For investors watching ENXTPA:AIR, this move ties directly into how the company is positioning itself around aviation decarbonisation. The stock is trading at about €175.74, with the share price up 9.2% over the past year and 69.2% over five years. This kind of industrial project adds another piece to the long term story around Airbus and cleaner aviation fuels.

Rebound could become an important reference project as European airlines and regulators push for wider SAF adoption. As the venture progresses from site selection to construction and eventual production, investors may want to track how Airbus integrates this fuel supply angle with its aircraft portfolio and broader climate commitments.

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This SAF joint venture gives Airbus a foothold on the fuel side of decarbonisation, alongside its existing work on more efficient aircraft and future hydrogen concepts. By sitting in the consortium with Technip Energies, Safran and Tereos, Airbus is closer to decisions on technology, feedstock and offtake structures that could influence how quickly airlines can source lower carbon fuel for Airbus fleets. The partners only committed to the development phase so far, so investors are still looking at a multi year process involving engineering studies, permitting, financing and a final investment decision rather than near term financial impact. That said, the Port of Dunkirk site award reduces a key execution risk on logistics and permitting, which often slows large industrial energy projects.

How This Fits Into The Airbus Narrative

The Rebound project aligns with the narrative that decarbonisation and newer, lower emission aircraft are key drivers for Airbus, because a large SAF plant directly supports customers trying to cut lifecycle emissions from Airbus fleets. At the same time, the staged development and reliance on partners for technology and feedstock show that execution risk on complex industrial projects remains, which is consistent with concerns around broader supply chain and project delivery raised in the narrative. The narrative focuses heavily on aircraft deliveries, engine supply and supplier acquisitions. This SAF venture adds an upstream fuels component that may not yet be fully captured in those assumptions about future earnings mix.

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The Risks and Rewards Investors Should Consider

⚠️ The project still needs a final investment decision, regulatory approvals and full financing, so there is a risk it advances slower than expected or is reshaped, limiting its eventual contribution to Airbus's commercial positioning. ⚠️ Large scale SAF production depends on reliable advanced ethanol supply and the Alcohol to Jet technology performing as planned, so any disruption in feedstock availability or process efficiency could affect cost and adoption by airlines that fly Airbus aircraft. 🎁 If Rebound progresses as outlined, Airbus could strengthen relationships with key European airlines and regulators by helping secure domestic SAF supply, which may support aircraft selection decisions versus competitors such as Boeing and Embraer. 🎁 Participation across the value chain, from fuel development to aircraft design, may help Airbus better tailor future models and retrofit solutions to the fuel characteristics and availability that airlines actually face.

What To Watch Going Forward

From here, focus on the milestones the partners have set out, including choice of technology licensor, completion of pre FEED and FEED engineering work, and progress on long term SAF offtake agreements with airlines. Any disclosure on how much capacity Airbus expects to secure for its customers, or how Rebound might link to specific Airbus aircraft programs, will help you judge whether this is mainly a reputational move or a meaningful commercial lever. It is also worth watching how regulators in Europe translate SAF policy into binding blending mandates, because that will influence demand for output from facilities of this scale.

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Saudi Arabia launched its second national carrier Riyadh Air after more than a year of delays on Wednesday, defying the economic turmoil triggered by the Middle East war and strong competition from established Gulf airlines.

A London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Riyadh Air's white and lavender livery took off at 2:30am (2330 GMT Tuesday), putting in motion a flagship project in Saudi Arabia's push to reduce its economic reliance on oil.

Riyadh Air, the country's second state-owned airline after Jeddah-based Saudia, is meant to help turn the Saudi capital into a global hub to rival Dubai, the world's busiest for international passengers.

"We want to bring glamour, we want to bring refinement, we want to bring grace back," Riyadh Air CEO Tony Douglas told AFP.

The launch, originally planned for 2025, was set back by delivery delays from Boeing, which has suffered a series of manufacturing and safety problems in recent years.

It also follows unprecedented attacks from Iran, which has fired thousands of drones and missiles at Gulf targets including airports, casting the wealthy region into sudden economic uncertainty.

But, for Douglas, ex-CEO of Abu Dhabi's Etihad airline, the inaugural flight is "the culmination of four years' worth of preparation".

"I think Riyadh, as a result of its geography, during this particular point in time, has been less affected" by the attacks, he said, seated in a Riyadh Air Dreamliner cabin at a pre-launch event.

"You have the trials and the tribulations, you win some, you lose some, you make progress, you sometimes have setbacks, but you have made it, and this day we've made it," added the CEO.

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Saudi Arabia is building a major new airport in Riyadh with a planned capacity of 120 million passengers a year by 2030, compared to 53 million at the existing King Khalid International Airport.

Riyadh Air is owned by the $900 billion Public Investment Fund, the main vehicle for de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's ambitious Vision 2030 economic reforms.

In a statement of intent, the airline ordered 132 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and last June signed for 25 Airbus A350-1000s, with an option for 50 more.

"Our ambition is to be able to connect to over 100 international cities over the next five years," Douglas said.

At a ceremony celebrating the first planes' delivery, PIF chief and Riyadh Air chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan described "a historic moment for the nation" and said the company would create "200,000 direct and indirect jobs".

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Saudi Arabia is focusing on Vision 2030's more pragmatic ventures as extravagances like NEOM, a futuristic city in the desert, and Riyadh's cuboid skyscraper Mukaab, are scaled back or scrapped to save costs.

Saudi Arabia, which is hosting the 2030 World Expo and the 2034 football World Cup, and welcomes millions of pilgrims to Mecca each year, aims to triple its annual air traffic to 330 million passengers by 2030.

Some analysts have cast doubt over these ambitions in a regional market that is saturated with competitors such as Dubai's Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad.

Yet Saudi airlines hold a significant advantage over Gulf competitors: a domestic market of approximately 35 million people, by far the region's largest.

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Rebound: a joint venture to develop a production capacity of 160,000 tons of Alcohol-to-Jet SAF per year at the Port of Dunkirk, strengthening European energy sovereignty and supporting France's industrial leadership in the energy transition.

Technip Energies (PARIS: TE), Airbus, Safran and Tereos entered into an agreement to create Rebound, a joint venture to develop a large-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production project at the Port of Dunkirk, in Northern France.

The project will use the Alcohol-to-Jet (AtJ) technological pathway to produce approximately 160,000 tons of SAF per year, making it one of the largest facilities of its kind in Europe and contributing to European energy sovereignty.

With this agreement, the partners commit to fund the project's development phase, including engineering studies and other activities required to consider a Final Investment Decision (FID).

SAF is widely recognised as the primary lever to decarbonise aviation. Under the European Union's Refuel EU Aviation regulation, SAF blending mandates will rise progressively reaching 6% by 2030 and 70% by 2050, driving an eightfold increase in demand between 2030 and 2050. Among the available production pathways, Alcohol-to-Jet is emerging as a scalable and cost-competitive option which converts advanced ethanol, produced from agricultural and forestry residues into drop-in aviation fuel that can be blended with conventional jet fuel and used in existing engines and aircraft.

In this project development phase, Technip Energies will act as the project's lead developer and engineering service provider, bringing its expertise in technology scaling and complex project execution. Airbus and Safran, world-class leaders in global aerospace, join as industrial partners, offtake facilitators and potential SAF offtakers. As a European leader in ethanol production, Tereos, a French agricultural cooperative intends to supply and source the advanced ethanol required for the project. Together, the four partners cover the value chain from feedstock supply to aviation end-use, under a single European-led initiative.

A key milestone was already reached: the Port of Dunkirk awarded Technip Energies an industrial site in Northern France, which will offer, upon finalisation of the joint venture, strong logistical advantages to Rebound for feedstock and product transport, as well as a streamlined permitting pathway.

The partners will progress through a disciplined, stage-gated development process. Steps ahead include the selection of the technology licensor, permitting activities, launch of pre-FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) and FEED activities, finalisation of feedstock supply and SAF offtake agreements, and securing the financing for the construction of the asset.

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The creation of the joint venture is subject to customary closing conditions and approvals and is expected to be finalised in the second half of this year.

Benjamin Lechuga, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer of Technip Energies, commented: "Sustainable Aviation Fuel is one of the most critical levers to decarbonise aviation, and the Alcohol-to-Jet pathway offers a credible, scalable route to get there. With Rebound, we are putting into practice our strategy to capture greater value through adjacent business models, originating and developing projects in fast-growing energy transition markets alongside recognised industry leaders such as Airbus, Safran and Tereos. We look forward to advancing this project with the engineering rigor and disciplined execution that define Technip Energies."

Julie Kitcher, Chief Sustainability Officer and Communications of Airbus, stated: "The Rebound project is a vote of confidence in SAF and in Europe's ability to be a leader in the journey to decarbonise aviation. With renewable energy facing global headwinds, Airbus will work with our partners to open up an abundant new SAF pathway, Alcohol-to-Jet fuel, in France. This project aims to increase the availability of lower-carbon fuels, contribute to reducing aviation emissions and strengthen Europe's energy supply security, while creating a new job market. I am delighted that Airbus is a partner in the Rebound project, which is a vital step forward for the SAF ecosystem in Europe."

Nathalie Stubler, Chief Sustainability Officer of Safran, commented: "Developing Sustainable Aviation Fuel at scale is essential for decarbonising air transport. This ambitious project brings together leading French and European expertise, supporting the emergence of a competitive SAF industry. By joining forces with our partners, Safran reaffirms its commitment to innovation and environmental responsibility, fully aligned with our strategy to reduce CO₂ emissions and support the energy transition in aviation. This commitment is reflected in our investments, through Safran Corporate Ventures, in the development of sustainable solutions for the aviation industry of tomorrow."

Jérôme Bos, Chief Strategy Officer of Tereos, declared: "We are delighted to contribute, through Rebound, to the emergence of the Alcohol-to-Jet industry in France, supporting the decarbonization of the aviation sector. This project is fully aligned with Tereos' mission to develop low-carbon industrial value chains by creating value from agricultural production. Tereos will bring to the project its expertise and industrial assets dedicated to the production of advanced ethanol. It also provides a strong illustration of the development of a bioeconomy rooted in French and European agricultural production."

About Technip Energies

Technip Energies is a global technology and engineering powerhouse. With leadership positions in LNG, hydrogen, ethylene, sustainable chemistry, and CO2 management, we are contributing to the development of critical markets such as energy, energy derivatives, decarbonization, and circularity. Our complementary business segments, Technology, Products and Services (TPS) and Project Delivery, turn innovation into scalable and industrial reality.

Through collaboration and excellence in execution, our 18,000+ employees across 35 countries are fully committed to bridging prosperity with sustainability for a world designed to last.

Technip Energies generated revenues of €7.2 billion in 2025 and is listed on Euronext Paris. The Company also has American Depositary Receipts trading over the counter.

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About Airbus

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus designs and manufactures modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in space systems, defence and security. In helicopters, Airbus provides efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

About Safran

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with more than 110,000 employees and revenue of 31.3 billion euros in 2025, and holds, alone or in partnership, global or regional leadership positions in its core markets. Safran undertakes research and development programs to maintain the environmental priorities of its R&T and Innovation roadmaps.

Safran is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and is part of the CAC 40 and Euro Stoxx 50 indices.

Safran Corporate Ventures is Safran's venture capital subsidiary, dedicated to financing innovative technology startups and SMEs. Since its inception in April 2015, it has helped fund 23 innovative companies in the Group's various focus areas (Factory 4.0, decarbonization of the aerospace industry, embedded components, new materials, new services).

About Tereos

The Tereos French agricultural cooperative, a union of 10,300 cooperative members, has recognised know-how in the processing of beet, sugarcane, cereals and alfalfa. Through its 38 industrial plants, a presence in 12 countries and the commitment of its 14,300 employees, Tereos Group supports its customers close to their markets with a broad and complementary range of products. Driven by its purpose—Cultivating a shared future for the Earth and People by meeting essential daily needs—the cooperative is one of the 50 most committed companies in terms of emissions linked to forests, land and agriculture.

Contacts

Technip Energies

Investor Relations Phillip Lindsay Vice-President Investor Relations Tel: +44 207 585 5051 Email: Phillip Lindsay

Media Relations Jason Hyonne Press Relations & Social Media Manager Tel: +33 1 47 78 22 89 Email: Jason Hyonne

Airbus

Media Relations Camila OROZCO AIRBUS Tel: +33 6 07 54 22 96 Email: Camila Orozco

Safran

Media relations Catherine Malek: catherine.malek@safrangroup.com / +33 1 40 60 80 28 Isabelle Javary: isabelle.javary@safrangroup.com / +33 1 40 60 82 20 Paul Wirbel: paul.wirbel@safrangroup.com / + 33 6 88 12 54 70

Tereos

Head of communications Valérie Gillot Email : valerie.gillot@tereos.com

Media Relations CTempo-Saper Vedere Capucine Barraud-Degouy Tel: +33 6 64 75 88 44 Email : capucinebarraud@ctempo.fr

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