Mistral
Mistral AI is a French company founded in 2023 by former Meta and Google DeepMind researchers, which builds a family of LLMs - some of them distributed as open weights (freely downloadable and runnable locally).
Mistral AI is a French company founded in 2023 by former Meta and Google DeepMind researchers, which builds a family of LLMs - some of them distributed as open weights (freely downloadable and runnable locally).
Mistral's models (Mistral, Mixtral, Codestral, Mistral Large, Magistral…) cover generalist use cases, code and reasoning. The company also runs its Le Chat product and a Europe-hosted API - a differentiator for organisations bound by sovereignty constraints.
Mistral has become, in 2026, the leading European champion of generative AI, valued at several tens of billions of euros.