Mistral AI
~$14B
Approximate
Europe's frontier lab; Apache-licensed open-weight models alongside proprietary ones, positioned as a sovereign alternative to the US labs.
- Founded
- 2023
- Research area
- General-purpose models — Agents, On-device, Open weights, Sovereign AI
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
Founders
- Timothée Lacroix — previously Meta (FAIR), École des Ponts
- Guillaume Lample — previously Meta (FAIR), Sorbonne Université
- Arthur Mensch — previously DeepMind, Université Paris-Saclay