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Mistral AI
European lab shipping open-weight and commercial language models.
| Type | Frontier labs |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Website | mistral.ai |
Mistral AI funding filings
We found no Form D filed by Mistral AI itself under this name. Many labs raise through foreign entities or file under a different legal name.
Investment vehicles named after Mistral AI
4 special-purpose vehicles carrying the Mistral AI name have filed a Form D, 0 of them in the last 12 months. SPVs pool money from smaller investors to buy into one company, often on the secondary market, so a rising count is a sign of investor demand.
- Mistral AI T1V SPV Sep 2025 a Series of CGF2021 LLC14 Oct 2025
- Mistral AI - MI-0103 Fund I, a series of AngelList Funds 2024, LP25 Feb 2025
- Mistral AI SPV II, a Series of Vauban Platform LP30 Oct 2023
- Mistral AI SPV I, a Series of Vauban Platform LP30 Oct 2023
Source: SEC EDGAR full-text search for "Mistral AI", Form D. Name matches can include unrelated filers; tell us if one is wrong.
Mistral AI research
36 papers in OpenAlex list an author affiliated with Mistral AI (France) in the last 12 months. The most cited:
- Scale Can’t Overcome Pragmatics: The Impact of Reporting Bias on Vision-Language Reasoning1 Jan 2026 · 2 citations
- The cognitive biases that may exacerbate inflationary and deflationary positions about large language models9 Jul 2026 · 1 citations
- Compute-optimal data scaling for neural surrogates via multi-fidelity training12 Oct 2026 · 0 citations
- Executable but Unfaithful: Mock Object, Stub, and Assertion Generation by LLMs and Coding Agents10 Oct 2026 · 0 citations
- Unconstrained CTI-REALM with Open-Weights9 Oct 2026 · 0 citations
Source: OpenAlex (CC0), institution Mistral AI (France), read 2 Nov 2026.
Mistral AI models
Latest releases
- mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B-NVFP415 Oct 2026
- mistralai/Timestral-123M14 Oct 2026
- mistralai/Timestral-28M14 Oct 2026
- mistralai/Timestral-5M14 Oct 2026
- mistralai/Timestral-209M14 Oct 2026
- mistralai/LIDstral-Arabic8 Oct 2026
Most downloaded
- mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-26021,710,480 downloads (30 days)
- mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.21,709,543 downloads (30 days)
- mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.31,666,623 downloads (30 days)
- mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1450,263 downloads (30 days)
- mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1283,508 downloads (30 days)
Source: Hugging Face Hub, organisation mistralai, read 2 Nov 2026.
Mistral AI: quick answers
Who founded Mistral AI?
Mistral AI was founded in 2023 by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix.
People at Mistral AI
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