Mistral AI News
Latest news, updates, and announcements from Mistral AI.
Mistral Raises €3B Series D at €21B+ Valuation, Led by Samsung Electronics
Mistral announced on September 8 a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation above €21 billion, which it calls the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company. Samsung Electronics...
Mistral raises €3 billion from Samsung, Nvidia and Scaleup Fund
Paris-based Mistral AI has closed a €3 billion (~$3.2B) funding round backed by Samsung, Nvidia, and Scaleup Fund, the company confirmed. Mistral said the capital will go toward developing new machine...
Mistral partners with Saudi Arabia's Humain on Arabic frontier models and regional AI infrastructure.
Mistral and Public Investment Fund-owned Humain announced a strategic collaboration spanning AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and deployment across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. The...
Mistral AI has launched Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter multimodal safety classifier that unifies text,...
Mistral AI has launched Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter multimodal safety classifier that unifies text, image, and mixed-content moderation under a single interface. Designed to replace fixed risk-label s...
Mistral AI has signed a multi-billion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to lease its European data cen...
Mistral AI has signed a multi-billion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to lease its European data center capacity, marking a strategic pivot from pure model vendor to infrastructure provider. The deal,...
Mistral in talks with Samsung at €20B valuation amid competitive disruption from Moonshoot's Kimi K3
French AI lab Mistral is in discussions with Samsung about a potential deal at a €20 billion valuation. The talks come as the competitive landscape shifts following Moonshoot's release of the Kimi K3...
Mistral AI launches vision-language model for robot navigation
French AI startup Mistral AI has released its first robotics-oriented model, a vision-language system designed to enable robots to perceive and navigate unfamiliar environments. The move marks the com...
Naver Cloud and Mistral AI enter comprehensive partnership to target manufacturing AI market
South Korea's Naver Cloud and France's Mistral AI have signed a comprehensive partnership to jointly target the global manufacturing AI market. The companies, both members of NVIDIA's Nemotron allianc...
Mistral AI takes on OpenAI with open source frontier models. French AI startup Mistral AI has raised...
Mistral AI takes on OpenAI with open source frontier models. French AI startup Mistral AI has raised significant funding, positioning itself as a formidable competitor to OpenAI by betting on open-sou...
Mistral AI signs Airbus and BMW for industrial AI push into manufacturing
French foundation-model lab Mistral AI has signed multi-year enterprise contracts with Airbus SE and BMW AG, expanding beyond generative AI into what it calls 'physical AI' — applying models to design...
Mistral AI launches Workflows, a Temporal-powered orchestration platform for enterprise AI that auto...
Mistral AI launches Workflows, a Temporal-powered orchestration platform for enterprise AI that automates mission-critical processes across logistics and other sectors, already running millions of dai...
Mistral AI highlights that only 5% of global VC capital flows to Europe while the U.S. captures 52%,...
Mistral AI highlights that only 5% of global VC capital flows to Europe while the U.S. captures 52%, a ten‑fold disparity despite similar economies. This funding gap forces top European AI firms to se...
Mistral AI met Samsung's device‑solutions head in Seoul, seeking high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) for its...
Mistral AI met Samsung's device‑solutions head in Seoul, seeking high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) for its Europe‑scale AI models. The talks follow President Macron’s visit and aim to secure a stable chip s...
Mistral AI secured $830 million in debt financing to power a new AI data center near Paris with 13,8...
Mistral AI secured $830 million in debt financing to power a new AI data center near Paris with 13,800 Nvidia GPUs, targeting Q2 2026 launch. This massive GPU haul will boost Europe's AI training capa...
Mistral AI secured $830M in debt from 7 banks for a 44MW Paris data center with 13,800 Nvidia GB300...
Mistral AI secured $830M in debt from 7 banks for a 44MW Paris data center with 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs — the largest AI-focused debt raise by a European tech company. Owning compute is now as critic...
Mistral AI secured $830M in debt from 7 banks for 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs to power a Paris-area dat...
Mistral AI secured $830M in debt from 7 banks for 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs to power a Paris-area data center, its first-ever debt raise. Months after a $2B equity round at $13.8B valuation, Europe's t...
Mistral AI secured €722M ($830M) in debt financing from 7 banks for its first data center near Paris...
Mistral AI secured €722M ($830M) in debt financing from 7 banks for its first data center near Paris, powered by 13,800 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs delivering 44 MW by Q2 2026. The French AI unicorn is evolving...
Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, its first open-weight text-to-speech model packing 4B parameter...
Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, its first open-weight text-to-speech model packing 4B parameters, 9-language support, and zero-shot voice cloning from just 3 seconds of audio. With 70-90ms latenc...
Mistral AI launched Forge at Nvidia GTC 2026, a platform enabling enterprises to train fully custom...
Mistral AI launched Forge at Nvidia GTC 2026, a platform enabling enterprises to train fully custom AI models from scratch on proprietary data, covering the entire lifecycle from pre-training to align...
Mistral AI has acquired Paris-based Koyeb in its first-ever acquisition, integrating the serverless...
Mistral AI has acquired Paris-based Koyeb in its first-ever acquisition, integrating the serverless platform's 16-person team and technology into Mistral Compute. The $13.8B-valued French AI leader is...