Mistral AI
Frontier open-weight AI models you own and control
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company building open-weight frontier large language models, AI agents, and developer platforms. Headquartered in Paris and founded in April 2023 by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, it combines open-weight and commercial models with its own inference infrastructure, serving enterprises and governments across finance, manufacturing, energy and the public sector with a focus on AI sovereignty.
Founders
Arthur Mensch
Co-founder and CEO
Guillaume Lample
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
Timothée Lacroix
Co-founder and CTO
- AI · Infrastructure & Models
- Paris, France
- Series C+
- 2023
- 900 people
- €3.0bn
Funding rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series C+ | €3.0bn | Samsung Electronics, Scaleup Europe Fund (EQT), PSG Equity |
Our coverage of Mistral AI
Introducing Mistral Large 4
Mistral launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4 ('ML4'), a 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal open-weight model trained on its own European GPU infrastructure, with weights to be released by end of month.
Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
Mistral closed a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung Electronics at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company, just three years after launch.
Mistral Opens German Hub in Munich to Advance Industrial AI
Mistral announced the opening of a new office hub in Munich to support industrial AI work in Germany, Europe's largest economy, as part of its European expansion.
