🇫🇷 Mistral just raised €3B at nowhere near a discount
Samsung and a stack of European investors backed the round, pushing valuation to €21B.
Sovereign AI is no longer a buzzword, it is a balance sheet line item for governments and conglomerates who refuse to depend on OpenAI or Google.
Europe finally has a national champion with enough capital to actually compete on compute.
Watch whether this money buys frontier models or just buys time against Silicon Valley's lead.
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