Mistral AI is a new competitor to OpenAI, founded in 2023. It focuses on providing open source AI models to make advanced AI accessible to everyone. The company has raised significant funding to support its mission.
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Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”
Following the Trump directive that led Anthropic to pull its latest AI models offline and growing calls for sovereign tech that reduces reliance on the U.S., Mistral AI has been caught in a whirlwind of attention. But the French AI darling is often misunderstood, and the fact that it develops large language models (LLMs) has muddied the picture.