AI Lab Profile · France
Mistral AI
Mistral AI is independent foundation-model lab (Europe's leading), founded in 2023 and headquartered in Paris, France. Open-weight European frontier models; efficient MoE architectures; Le Chat assistant.
Founded 2023 · Paris, France · mistral.ai · Financials: Epoch AI (as of 2026-08-17) · Updated 2026-08-17
Overview
To put frontier AI in everyone's hands with open, portable and independent models.
Founded in 2023 in Paris by Arthur Mensch (CEO, ex-Google DeepMind) and Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix (both ex-Meta AI).
Flagship AI models
Key models released by Mistral AI, most recent last. Dates are the public release month where confirmed.
- 2023-09 Mistral 7BEfficient open-weight model (Apache 2.0)
- 2023-12 Mixtral 8x7BOpen-weight sparse mixture-of-experts model
- 2024-07 Mistral Large 2Flagship commercial model
- 2025-12 Mistral Large 3Latest flagship; large sparse MoE with long context
Funding & financials
Quantitative figures from Epoch AI's Data on AI Companies (CC BY 4.0). Each is the latest dated figure Epoch holds; private labs disclose selectively, so undisclosed values are marked as such — never estimated.
| Total equity funding | $3.0bn | |
| Latest valuation | $13.7bn | as of 2025-09-09 |
| Est. annualised revenue | $400m | as of 2026-01-31 |
| Staff | 350 | as of 2025-09-09 |
| Active users | Not disclosed | |
| Revenue / employee | $1m |
Key facts
- Champions an open-weights strategy, releasing many models under the permissive Apache 2.0 licence.
- Raised a EUR 2 billion Series C in September 2025 led by chip-equipment maker ASML, one of Europe's largest AI rounds.
- In March 2026 secured USD 830 million in debt financing to build its own data centre near Paris.
- Founders are ex-Meta AI and Google DeepMind researchers; positioned as Europe's sovereign-AI champion.
Frequently asked
- When was Mistral AI founded?
- Mistral AI was founded in 2023, by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix. It is headquartered in Paris, France.
- How much funding has Mistral AI raised?
- Mistral AI has raised about $3.0bn in total equity funding, at a latest valuation of about $13.7bn (2025-09-09). Source: Epoch AI.
- What are Mistral AI's main AI models?
- Mistral AI's notable models include Mixtral 8x7B, Mistral Large 2, Mistral Large 3. Open-weight European frontier models; efficient MoE architectures; Le Chat assistant.
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