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Mistral AI
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France
Europe's sovereign-AI champion. Raised EUR 3B at EUR 21B (Sep); released Large 4, a 1T-parameter open-weight model, on 29 Oct.
What it offers
Main offerings
- Mistral Large 4
- 1T-parameter open-weight multimodal flagship ('Le Chonk'), released 29 Oct.
- Mistral Large 3 · Medium 3.5 · Small 4
- Mostly open models; Small 4 is Apache 2.0.
- Mistral Vibe
- Consumer assistant, formerly Le Chat (renamed May).
- Voxtral · OCR
- Speech and document models.
- AI Studio · sovereign deployment
- On-prem and European-hosted enterprise AI.
Recent news
- Mistral fully releases Large 4 ('Le Chonk'), a 1T-parameter open-weight modelOut of preview with weights on Hugging Face; Europe's largest open model.Mistral AI ↗
- Ecosia drops Mistral for Chinese open-source modelsA visible European customer loss over quality.AI Weekly (Politico EU) ↗
- Mistral previews Large 4, a 1T-parameter open-weight modelEurope's largest open model; weights promised by end of October.Mistral AI ↗
- Mistral raises EUR 3B at EUR 21B valuation, led by SamsungLargest equity round by a European tech company, riding demand for sovereign AITechCrunch ↗
- Mistral ships its first robot navigation modelExpands from language models into physical AITech Insider ↗
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