Putting frontier AI in everyone's hands.

Our mission is to make frontier

AI open to all, and together solve

the world's hardest problems.

Mission-critical AI for enterprises and governments.

We partner with organizations in high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, energy, and the public sector to co-create tailored AI systems to solve their hardest, most high-value problems. Because we believe that this critical stake for companies requires deep control, ownership, and production reliability, we have built full-stack AI solutions, including frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute.

Our frontier lab roots.

In 2022, the Big Tech landscape was at a crossroads: innovation was advancing, but companies were also closing off. Mistral's co-founders saw the need for a different kind of AI company: a European leader that combines cutting-edge innovation with openness, transparency, cost efficiency, and responsibility. They were determined to democratize AI, making it accessible, customizable, and returning control to users. In April 2023, Mistral was born to put frontier AI in everyone’s hands.

Mistral logo on a pillar.

Key dates for Mistral.

June 5, 2023

First employee.

June 13, 2023

Seed round.

September 27, 2023

7B.

December 11, 2023

Series A.

February 26, 2024

Mistral Large.

June 11, 2024

Series B.

September 30, 2024

100th employee.

January 30, 2025

Small 3.

February 6, 2025

Le Chat (new).

March 6, 2025

OCR.

June 4, 2025

Mistral Code. (later Vibe)

June 11, 2025

Mistral Compute.

July 15, 2025

Voxtral.

July 22, 2025

Environmental AI study.

September 9, 2025

Series C.

October 24, 2025

Mistral Studio.

March 17, 2026

Forge.

April 7, 2026

European AI playbook.

Mistral's founders.

Arthur Mensch

Co-founder and CEO.

Guillaume Lample

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer.

Timothee Lacroix

Co-founder and CTO.

Who we work with.

Stellantis logo
IBM
BNP Paribas logo color
SAP
CMA CGM
ASML (black)
HTX
Orange
French Ministry of Defense logo
AXA Logo
Cisco logo
Total Energies logo

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