# Mistral releases OCR 4.1 and announces regional inference platform with European capacity expansion > Source: > Published: 2026-08-14 20:05:34+00:00 # Mistral releases OCR 4.1 and announces regional inference platform with European capacity expansion Mistral released OCR 4.1 with native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores, priced at $4 per 1,000 pages. According to Mistral's announcement, the company introduced Regional Endpoints (now generally available) allowing customers to choose inference location in Europe or the US to align with data-residency and latency requirements, and announced plans to build up to 1 GW of capacity by 2030 to provide sovereign AI infrastructure. ## Topics ## Sources - Official [Read article](https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1) - Official [Read article](https://mistral.ai/news/regional-inference-open-models-new-compute/) ## Go deeper This intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.