## Mistral AI's Le Chat Enhances Personalization and Business Integration with New Features **Report Provider:** The Register **Author:** Thomas Claburn **Publication Date:** September 2, 2025 Mistral AI, a Paris-based artificial intelligence company, has launched a beta version of "Memories" for its AI chatbot, Le Chat. This new feature allows Le Chat to remember personal details and preferences stated by users, enabling more personalized and relevant future interactions. The company has also introduced "20+ secure, MCP-powered connectors" to facilitate business integration with third-party services. ### Key Findings and Features: * **"Memories" for Personalized Interactions:** * Le Chat can now store stated preferences and details from past interactions to guide future responses. * This feature is an **opt-in service**. * Mistral AI claims Le Chat has an **86 percent chance** of accurately retrieving saved information. * **Example:** If a user informs Le Chat about a peanut allergy, the AI may remember this to exclude peanuts from recipe suggestions. * **Privacy Concerns:** Similar to search and advertising personalization, this feature raises potential privacy concerns regarding the inadvertent exposure of sensitive personal information. Mistral AI has published a detailed explanation in its Privacy Policy and documentation regarding data usage and user control options. * **MCP Connectors for Business Integration:** * Mistral AI has released over 20 secure connectors powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP). * MCP allows AI models to interact with third-party services, enabling AI "agents." * These connectors aim to connect Le Chat users to business-oriented tools. * **Security Concerns:** While Mistral AI proclaims security and administrative control over connector availability, past MCP implementations have shown vulnerabilities. A recent report by security firm Pynt found that **1 in 10 MCP plugins is fully exploitable**, and having three such plugins increases exploitability risk beyond **50 percent**. * **Available Connectors:** The list of available connectors includes Asana, Atlassian, Box, Brevo, Cloudflare, Databricks (coming soon), GitHub, Linear, Monday.com, Notion, PayPal, Pinecone, Plaid, Prisma, Postgres, Salesforce (soon), Sentry, Snowflake (soon), Square, Stripe, and Zapier. ### Context and Implications: The introduction of "Memories" positions Le Chat alongside rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, which already offer similar personalization capabilities. However, the company's European base, with its "substantive data regulation," is highlighted as a factor in their transparent approach to data handling. The launch of MCP connectors signifies a move towards making Le Chat a more robust business tool. The success and security of these integrations will depend on the actual implementation and ongoing security audits, given the reported vulnerabilities in existing MCP services. The company's emphasis on administrative control for organizations is a key aspect of its business offering. The news also briefly mentions other AI-related business developments: * Microsoft being rewarded for security failures with another US government contract. * Salesforce sacrificing 4,000 support jobs for AI initiatives. * Goldman Sachs warning of a potential AI bubble and its impact on the datacenter boom. * A general observation that security is often overlooked in the rush to adopt new AI technologies.
Mistral AI’s Le Chat can now remember your conversations
Read original at The Register →Mistral AI can now remember personal details about you and use them to offer better prompts. It also has new MCP connectors that businesses can deploy to connect their users to third-party tech services. The Paris-based AI biz on Tuesday is now offering a beta version of Memories for Le Chat, the company's answer to ChatGPT and a French-language feline pun.
The data retention, already available from rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, allows the company's AI chatbot to be more helpful by storing stated preferences and details about past interactions to guide future responses. Personalization of this sort poses the same potential privacy concern as it does for search and advertising.
The inadvertent exposure of user prompts containing personal info has already posed problems for various AI services and affected users. Perhaps because Mistral operates out of Europe where there's substantive data regulation, the company has published a detailed explanation in its Privacy Policy and documentation about how it might use said data and the options customers have to control it.
"If you include sensitive data in your Input, such as health details, this data may be stored as a Memory to provide you with more relevant and personalized answers," the company's documentation explains, noting that Memories is an opt-in service. As an example, the biz suggests that if you tell Le Chat you have a peanut allergy, "Le Chat may remember it in order to exclude peanuts from recipe suggestions."
We note that there's a significant difference between "may remember" and "will remember." The company's post on the subject suggests Le Chat's chance of accurately retrieving saved information is 86 percent. That's not exactly a sure thing. So those with peanut allergies might want to think twice about trusting Le Chat to order takeout (or they could just put "no peanuts" in the restaurant prompt).
Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US government contract Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI Goldman Sachs warns AI bubble could burst datacenter boom In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception That's a slightly more plausible scenario now, thanks to Mistral's release of "20+ secure, MCP-powered connectors" that allow Le Chat customers to connect to business-oriented tools.
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It's a way for developers to allow AI models to interact with third-party services. AI models empowered thus are often referred to as "agents," though they haven't worked all that well. If the word "secure" truly applies here, that would be grand. But MCP implementations to date, such as Anthropic's SQLite MCP server or AI code editor Cursor's MCP service, have fallen short.
Security firm Pynt recently found that one in 10 MCP plugins is fully exploitable and having three such plugins raised the risk of exploitability beyond 50 percent. Mistral nonetheless proclaims that "Admin users can confidently control which connectors are available to whom in their organization, with on-behalf authentication, ensuring users only access data they're permitted to."
Available connectors include: Asana, Atlassian, Box, Brevo, Cloudflare, Databricks (coming soon), GitHub, Linear, Monday.com, Notion, PayPal, Pinecone, Plaid, Prisma, Postgres, Salesforce soon), Sentry, Snowflake (soon), Square, Stripe, and Zapier. ®
