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Paris-based AI lab building open-weight and frontier large language models, plus the Le Chat assistant.
Mistral AI is a French artificial-intelligence company founded in 2023 by former DeepMind and Meta researchers. It is one of Europe's flagship AI labs, known for releasing open-weight models alongside its commercial frontier models, and for the Le Chat assistant.
Its open releases (such as the Mistral and Mixtral families) have made high-quality models broadly available to European developers, making it a cornerstone of the continent's AI-augmented development movement.
Funding
€600M Series B (2024)
Last verified 2026-06-20.