June 5, 2023
First employee.
Putting frontier AI in everyone's hands.
Our mission is to make frontier
AI open to all, and together solve
the world's hardest problems.
Mission-critical AI for enterprises and governments.
We partner with organizations in high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, energy, and the public sector to co-create tailored AI systems to solve their hardest, most high-value problems. Because we believe that this critical stake for companies requires deep control, ownership, and production reliability, we have built full-stack AI solutions, including frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute.
Our frontier lab roots.
In 2022, the Big Tech landscape was at a crossroads: innovation was advancing, but companies were also closing off. Mistral's co-founders saw the need for a different kind of AI company: a European leader that combines cutting-edge innovation with openness, transparency, cost efficiency, and responsibility. They were determined to democratize AI, making it accessible, customizable, and returning control to users. In April 2023, Mistral was born to put frontier AI in everyone’s hands.
Key dates for Mistral.
June 13, 2023
Seed round.
September 27, 2023
7B.
December 11, 2023
Series A.
February 26, 2024
Mistral Large.
June 11, 2024
Series B.
September 30, 2024
100th employee.
January 30, 2025
Small 3.
February 6, 2025
Le Chat (new).
March 6, 2025
OCR.
June 4, 2025
Mistral Code. (later Vibe)
June 11, 2025
Mistral Compute.
July 15, 2025
Voxtral.
July 22, 2025
Environmental AI study.
September 9, 2025
Series C.
October 24, 2025
Mistral Studio.
March 17, 2026
Forge.
April 7, 2026
European AI playbook.
Mistral's founders.
Arthur Mensch
Co-founder and CEO.
Guillaume Lample
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer.
Timothee Lacroix
Co-founder and CTO.
Who we work with.
Latest updates.
Product
Your Prompts and Skills need a system of record.
Studio gives AI prompts & skills a system of record—versioned, owned, and traceable.
Research
Introducing Robostral Navigate
Robostral Navigate, our first model built for embodied navigation.
Research
Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All
Engineering
Bringing more control over your connectors
Research
Introducing Mistral OCR 4
State of the art document intelligence model.
