The oil well just got a frontier model for its reservoir. totalenergies and mistral launched a…
the oil well just got a frontier model for its reservoir. totalenergies and mistral launched a three-year, 100 million euro program on september 15 to build ai that reads subsurface data for exploration and reservoir engineering, combining nearly 10 petaflops of geoscience data with the french lab's models.
the next barrel may be found by a model, not a geologist.
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Verified source: TotalEnergies (Sep 15, 2026) announced with Mistral a 3-year joint program representing an investment of more than 100 million euros to develop frontier AI models for geosciences, exploration and reservoir engineering.
The Sep 15 date, the 3-year term and the more than 100 million euros match TotalEnergies' release. The nearly 10 petaflops of geoscience data was not seen in the excerpts read, so unsupported here, not refuted. 'A model, not a geologist' is the author's opinion.
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- Read the release for the compute and data figures.
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