Mistral AI
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At a glance
Overview
Mistral AI is a French artificial-intelligence company founded in April 2023 by alumni of Google DeepMind and Meta AI. Within months of founding, the company raised a €105 million seed round at a €240 million valuation, and went on to reach a US$6 billion valuation by mid-2024 — making it Europe's most valuable AI company.
Open-weights philosophy
Mistral has pursued a hybrid strategy: releasing strong open-weights models alongside commercial closed offerings.
- Mistral 7B (Sep 2023) — Apache-2.0 model that outperformed Llama 2 13B
- Mixtral 8x7B (Dec 2023) — sparse mixture-of-experts open release
- Mistral Large (Feb 2024) — closed flagship, available via Microsoft Azure
- Codestral (May 2024) — code-specialised model
- Devstral (2025) — frontier coding model
Le Chat
Mistral operates Le Chat, a free consumer chatbot competing with ChatGPT, marketed in part on its European data residency and lower pricing.
EU positioning
Mistral has been a vocal advocate for European AI sovereignty during the development of the EU AI Act, arguing for lighter-touch regulation of foundation-model providers.
Latest news from Mistral AI
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Too Good To Go Optimizes Partner Retention with Mistral AI in Amazon Bedrock Amazon Web Services
Latest activity
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Codestral 2508 pricing update
Codestral 2508: input $1.00 → $0.30 /1M tokens, output $3.00 → $0.90 /1M tokens
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Mistral: Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1 released
Mistral: Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1 discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Mistral AI.
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Releases timeline
Showing 12 most recent- Mistral Small 4
Mistral Small 4 is the next major release in the Mistral Small family, unifying the capabilities of several flagship Mistral models into a single system. It combines strong reasoning from...
- Mistral Small Creative
Mistral Small Creative is an experimental small model designed for creative writing, narrative generation, roleplay and character-driven dialogue, general-purpose instruction following, and conversational agents.
- Devstral 2 2512
Devstral 2 is a state-of-the-art open-source model by Mistral AI specializing in agentic coding. It is a 123B-parameter dense transformer model supporting a 256K context window. Devstral 2 supports exploring...
- Ministral 3 14B 2512
The largest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 14B offers frontier capabilities and performance comparable to its larger Mistral Small 3.2 24B counterpart. A powerful and efficient language...
Active models
- Mistral Small 4Active
Mistral Small 4 is the next major release in the Mistral Small family, unifying the capabilities of several flagship Mistral models into a single system. It combines strong reasoning from...
262K ctx - Mistral Small CreativeActive
Mistral Small Creative is an experimental small model designed for creative writing, narrative generation, roleplay and character-driven dialogue, general-purpose instruction following, and conversational agents.
33K ctx - Devstral 2 2512Active
Devstral 2 is a state-of-the-art open-source model by Mistral AI specializing in agentic coding. It is a 123B-parameter dense transformer model supporting a 256K context window. Devstral 2 supports exploring...
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