🤖 Mistral just raised €3B to prove open-weight AI can be a frontier bet
Samsung led the round, the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund joined in, and the valuation landed at €21B. Not bad for a lab that's essentially betting "open and sovereign" beats "closed and American."
Europe's been quietly distancing itself from US tech, and Mistral keeps collecting that tailwind. Meta has Llama. Mistral has Mistral and a continent that needs an alternative.
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Mistral AI
Making sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier | Mistral
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
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