Mistral

Mistral AI is a Paris-based artificial intelligence company that builds open-weight and commercial large language models. Its full-stack offering includes Vibe (AI agents for research, coding and everyday work), Studio (building and governing agents and applications), Forge (customizing and training models), Inference (a model API on Mistral Cloud) and Compute (reserved GPU capacity in Europe).

Customers are enterprises and public bodies in high-stakes sectors such as energy, manufacturing, financial services, defense and the public sector. The website names TotalEnergies, ASML, Airbus, BNP Paribas and the European Patent Office among them. Revenue comes from subscription plans for Vibe (Free, Pro, Team, Enterprise), plus custom enterprise deployments and API and compute usage. Models can run on-prem, in a customer's VPC, or be hosted by Mistral.

The company was founded in April 2023 by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix. Its timeline lists a seed round, Series A, Series B and Series C. The careers page cites 900+ employees. It has hubs in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Munich (a German hub) and other cities, and is hiring across science, engineering, solutions, product, legal, business and HR.

Product: Open-weight frontier LLMs plus the Vibe agents, Studio, Forge, Inference API and Compute GPU offerings.