Mistral AI

About Mistral AI

Mistral AI is Europes leading foundation model laboratory, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Paris, France by former Meta and Google DeepMind researchers Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothee Lacroix. The company develops the Mistral family of open-weight and proprietary large language models including Mistral Large, Mistral Small, Codestral for coding, Mistral Embed for embeddings, and the Pixtral multimodal model. Mistral provides API access through La Plateforme, the Le Chat consumer assistant, and enterprise solutions including on-premise model deployment. The company has emerged as Europes flagship AI champion with major partnerships with Microsoft Azure, IBM, and the French government.