In short. Mistral Work names AFP and AP as professional news partners for news queries.
Definition: As documented on 17 October 2026, Mistral Work names Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Associated Press (AP) as its professional news partners for news queries. Mistral says the resulting sources link to the original agency reporting.
Key facts
- Mistral's Search the web documentation says Work fetches current information from across the web for a prompt.
- For news queries, the same documentation names Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Associated Press (AP) as professional news partners.
- Mistral describes the news results as coming from verified, editorially vetted sources.
- When news results are included, Work shows a news icon alongside the globe icon.
- The sources link directly to the original agency reporting, according to the Work documentation.
- Mistral's separate Websearch documentation describes
web_search_premiumas a tool that can access news articles through integrated news provider verification.
Which agencies does Mistral name?
The direct answer is AFP and AP. Mistral's Work documentation uses the phrase “professional news partners” and links AFP to afp.com and AP to apnews.com. The wording identifies the two agencies used for news queries; it does not give a percentage split between them or describe a choice rule for a particular query.
The page separates news search from general web search. It says that web search fetches current information from across the web, while the news-search passage identifies the two agency partners. This distinction matters when interpreting the agency names: the page describes a source group for news queries, rather than saying that every web result comes from either agency.
What does Mistral's API documentation add?
Mistral's Websearch documentation describes two search tools. It calls web_search a simple web search tool and web_search_premium a more complex tool that provides access to both a search engine and news articles through integrated news provider verification.
The same page says both tools work with the Conversations API at /v1/conversations and the Agents API. It also says they are unsupported in the Chat Completions API because those responses do not include the search-result references returned by the tools. These API details describe Mistral's search tooling and give context for the documented news-provider layer; the Work page remains the source that names AFP and AP for Work.
How can you recognise an agency result?
Mistral's Work documentation says a news result carries a news icon alongside the globe icon. It also says that sources link directly to the original agency reporting. A reader can therefore open the linked source and inspect the agency page rather than relying on the summary alone.
The same page states that web search can return outdated or incomplete content depending on what the source page exposes. The agency names identify the documented news partners, while the linked source is the page to inspect for the underlying report.
What does AFP's announcement establish?
On 16 January 2025, AFP published a partnership announcement saying that Mistral AI's conversational assistant Le Chat would receive access to the full range of AFP's text stories. The announcement says the agreement was multi-year and that Le Chat would use AFP's daily production of 2,300 text stories in six languages: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Arabic.
That release documents AFP's relationship with Mistral AI and gives concrete detail about the AFP material described there. It does not set out the terms of AP's role or explain how Work allocates news results between AFP and AP.
Related terms
FAQ
Is Reuters named as a Mistral Work news partner?
No. The Work documentation names AFP and AP in its news-search section; it does not name Reuters in that passage.
Does every Mistral Work web result come from AFP or AP?
No. Mistral describes general web search as fetching current information from across the web. AFP and AP are the two agencies named for the news-query path.
How can I check the source behind a news result?
Look for the news icon beside the globe icon, then open the source link. Mistral says the link goes directly to the original agency reporting.
Sources
- Mistral Docs, "Search the web and Open URL", undated
- Mistral Docs, "Websearch", undated
- Agence France-Presse, "AFP and Mistral AI announce global partnership to enhance AI responses with reliable news content", 16 January 2025
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