What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, EU Assistant Le Chat and a French company behind several basic models, officially adopted officially The most promising technological startups of France and The only European company that can compete with Openai controversially. However, compared to $ 6 billion, the global market share is still relatively low.

However, the Chat Assistant’s mobile application in mobile applications were greeted with a number of hype, especially in their country. “Go and have more than chatgpt by Openai, and something other than the Mistral or something other than anything else,” said French President Emmanuel Macron In a television interview In February 2025, the AI activity peak in Paris.

Although this wave of attention is to be inspiring, the Mistral AI continues with its definition as “the greenest and leading independent and leading independent and leading independent and leading independent and leading in the world.”

What is the Mistral EU?

Mistral AI, since its establishment in 2023, has been a significant amount of finance since its work with the claim of “Border EU in the hands of everyone.” This is not a direct Cab in Openai, the slogan is designed to emphasize the advocacy for openness in the company’s AI.

Chatgept is an alternative to Chat Assistant Le Chat, now available available on iOS and Android. Reached 1 million downloads In the next two weeks of the mobile release, it even captured France’s best for free downloads in the iOS App Store.

Updated with Mistral AI Le Chat in July 2025 New features approaching the opponent full stack EU chatbots: New “Deep Research” mode, native multilingual justification and advanced image editing. This update also includes the addition of projects that allow users to enter group conversations, documents and ideas in the center of focus.

This includes the following in addition to the Mistral AI.

• Mistral Big 2The main large language models change Mistral is great.
• PixTral Great, Opened in 2024 In addition to a new Pixtral family of multimodal models.
• HighwayThe first family of the first justification models launched in June 2025.
• Mistral middle 3In May 2025, it was released with the best to ensure efficiency and coding and root tasks.
• VoxtralThe first open source of the Mistral was released in July 2025, AI.
• SunderedA AI model, which is open to the coding and openly under an Apache 2.0 license, can be used commercially without restricting it.
• CodestrFor the code, a generative AI model before, but licensed banned commercial applications.
• “Les Ministraux,” model family Optimal for Edge devices Like the phone.
• Mistral Saba, focused on Arabic.

In March 2025 the company Mistral OCR presentedAn optical character recognition (OCR) API that can turn any PDF into a text file to facilitate the adoption of AI models.

Released in May 2025 Mistral agents API for “Authorizes enterprises to use the EU more practical and effectively” According to the head of Developer relations, Sophia Yang.

In June 2025, the Mistral AI, the Vibe coding client also published, Mistral codeCompete with current individuals such as Windsurf, AnySphere’s Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

Who are the founders of the Mistral AI?

Three founders of the Mistral AI are sharing a background in AI research in large-scale technological companies with significant operations in Paris. CEO Arthur Mensch, Google’s deptrinde, CTO Timothée Lakroix and General Scientist Zabiti Guillaume’nin said that the former meta workers.

Includes sharing consultants Jean-Charles Samuelian-Seerve Charles Gorintin, who is the beginning of health insurance, as well as the former digital minister Cédric O, persistent controversial Due to the previous role.

Mistral AI models are an open source?

Not all. Mistral AI distinguishes the models of Prime Minister heaviness Apache 2.0 is not available for commercial purposes from free models that provide weight under the license.

Free models include research models like Mistral Nemo, built in combination with NVIDIA open source In July 2024.

How does the Mistral AI make money?

Many of the Mistral AI are free or Now there are free stairsMistral AI plans to get a little income from Le Chat’s paid steps. The Le Chat’s Pro plan, which was presented in February 2025, is valuable at $ 14.99 per month.

Purity Mistral AI on the B2B side of the AI, the Prime Minister of Prime Ministers pays money from Apos. These models have a license for licenses and the company also creates an important share of its strategic partnership and some of its strategic partnerships During the Paris AI summit.

In general, the income of the Mistral AI, according to many sources, it is still reported in a eight-digit range.

Which partnership was the Mistral AI?

In 2024, Mistral AI closed a contract with Microsoft to distribute AI models with Microsoft with Microsoft with Microsoft Azure Platform and 15 million euros. UK competition and markets powers (CMA) quickly resulted in Due to the small size of the transaction did not match the investigation. But this also caused some criticism In the EU.

Mistral AI in January 2025 The press agency signed an agreement with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to chat with the entire text archive of the AFP passed by 1983.

Mistral AI also provided a strategic partnership with France army and business agency, Luxembourg, Shipping Giant CMAGerman Defense Technology Startup Welfare, Ibm, Orangeand Stellantis.

Mistral AI in May 2025 announced that he will take part in creation AI campus in the Paris regionAs part of the UAE-investment company MGX, NVIDIA and the French State Investment Bank part of the enterprise Bpifrance.

In June 2025, he will start in 2026, launched the European platform, which was dedicated to the Mistral AI and supported by NVIDIA processors, Calculate the Mistral. It was the beginning Taken by Macron as ‘History’Shortly after the announcement, Mensch and Nvidia shared the stage with Mensch and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Declared in July 2025 AI for citizens“To become public services, formatting the AI to the people by ensuring cataloging and competitiveness, the joint initiative.”

How much was the Mistral AI funded so far?

As of February 2025, Mistral AI increased about $ 1.04 billion in the current rate, about $ 1.04 billion. This includes some debt financing, as well as several capital financing tours raised in the nearest sequence.

Mistral AI removed the Mistral before leaving the first models in June 2023 and even Save $ 112 million seeds round Lightspeed is headed by Venture partners. In this case, the sources said the seeds are round – The largest in Europe – A monthly starting starter was worth $ 260 million.

Other investors in this seed tour BPifrance, Eric Schmidt, Exor enterprises, first minute capital, header, jcdecaux holding, la Famiglia, Localglobe, Motier Ventures, Sofina and Xavier Niel.

Tied only six months later A number of 385 million euros (At this time $ 415 million), $ 2 billion in a reported assessment. Round, Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), available with existing backer lightspeed, as well as BNP Paribas, CMA, CMA, General Catalyst and Salesforce and Salesforce.

This $ 16.3 million convertible investment This MistroSoft, prepared in the MistroSOFT in the MistroSoft, which is made in the AII, which is announced in February 2024, was presented as a number of opportunities.

In June 2024, the Mistral EU was later removed 600 million euros with a capital and debt mix ($ 640 million in the exchange rate in time). This long rumor round The total catalyst was included in $ 6 billion, with notable investors, including Cisco, IBM, Nvidia, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation and others.

Mistral ai now Reported to be in negotiations to collect $ 1 billion There are hundreds of millions of euros in capital, including Abu Dhabi’s MGX Foundation.

How does the Mistral AI approach the AI regulation?

Mensch was part of a group of European CEO signed an open letter He called Brussels on July 2025 ‘Stop the hour’ The main obligations of the EU artificial intelligence act will take effect two years ago. European Commission sticking to the original schedule.

What does the Mistral AI speech look like?

Mistral “not for sale” Mensch said in 2025 in the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2025. “Of course, [an IPO is] the plan. ”

Given how long the beginning is so far, even a large sales cannot provide enough strokes for even a large sales, even a large sales, and even investors, not to provide a lot of information to avoid concerns of sovereignty depending on the buyer.

However, a persistent shopping rumors that are definitely insisted – lately call the apples – Scale to levels that can justify the income about $ 6 billion. In both cases, stay.

This story was first published on February 28, 2025 and will be updated regularly.