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Mistral AI
European developer of open-weight and commercial language models.
Company profile
Mistral AI is a French developer of large language models, offering open-weight models for organizations that want to own and control their AI. WikipediaMistral AI website
Its Forge and Studio tools support model customization and deployment on-premises, in a customer's virtual private cloud or in Mistral's cloud. Mistral AI website
- Founded
- 2023
- Founders
- Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix, Arthur Mensch
- Headquarters
- Paris
- Chief executive
- Arthur Mensch
- Employees
- 350
- Ownership
- Not publicly reported
- Total funding
- Not publicly reported
- Latest funding round
- Series D, €3 billion; Samsung Electronics, Scaleup Europe Fund, PSG Equity
- Valuation
- More than €21 billion
- Revenue
- Not publicly reported
Drawn from Wikidata, Wikipedia, the company's own site and news and web sources; each figure links to its source. Researched Oct 19, 2026.
Latest news
Mistral Timestral: 209M Model Beats TimesFM-3 [2026]
CERN and Mistral AI team up on AI for physics
Mistral AI Releases Timestral: A 209M Forecasting Model Family That Outperforms Google’s TimesFM-3
CERN and Mistral plan an AI foundation model for particle physics
Build or surrender in the AI race, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch tells Europe
CERN and Mistral Plan a Single AI Foundation Model to Read Particle Collisions
CERN and Mistral AI Want to Teach a Foundation Model the Language of Particle Physics
Mistral gets the keys to CERN's exabyte: Europe's AI champion teams up on Flare, the first foundation model for collider physics
Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
CERN and Mistral AI to develop Flare for collision physics — TimesLIVE
Europe must invest in its own AI companies or be left at the mercy of the US and China, says Mistral AI co-founder
CERN and Mistral Plan Foundation Model for Physics
Mistral Releases Le Chonk, a 1 Trillion Parameter Open Weight Model
Can You Invest in Mistral AI in 2026? Pre-IPO Details & Alternatives
Ecosia drops Mistral AI models for Chinese open-weight alternatives
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