India can become a global AI innovation hub: Mistral CEO Arthur MenschFrench startup Mistral AI’s cofounder and chief executive Arthur Mensch feels India can become a global innovation hub for AI due to its ta...
19 Feb, 2026, 06.41 PM IST
ASML's Mistral investment could augur more European tech collaborationsLe Maire, who left French politics in July last year after President Emmanuel Macron's shock decision to call snap elections, is now a stra...
30 Sep, 2025, 11.12 PM IST
First French AI billionaires emerge after €11.7 billion Mistral funding roundMistral AI's three founders, Arthur Mensch, Timothee Lacroix, and Guillaume Lample, are now billionaires. A recent funding round valued the...
11 Sep, 2025, 04.10 PM IST
Mistral AI raises 1.7 billion euros as ASML becomes its top shareholderASML is investing 1.3 billion euros in Mistral AI as part of a series C funding round, making it Mistral's main shareholder as it will hold...
09 Sep, 2025, 11.18 AM IST
ASML becomes Mistral AI's top shareholder after leading latest funding roundASML is set to become the largest shareholder in French AI startup Mistral AI by investing €1.3 billion in its €1.7 billion fundraising rou...
07 Sep, 2025, 09.56 PM IST
Apple’s AI Crossroads: Will Mistral or Perplexity Propel Siri and Apple Back to the Innovation Forefront?As the AI arms race heats up, Apple stands at a major inflection point: acquire disruptive AI startups Mistral or Perplexity to revamp Siri...
02 Sep, 2025, 10.58 AM IST
Apple eyes Mistral and Perplexity: is Siri set to crush Google and Samsung in AI?Apple is exploring acquisitions of AI startups Mistral and Perplexity to supercharge Siri, aiming to compete directly with Google and Samsu...
27 Aug, 2025, 05.57 PM IST
Apple internally discussed buying Mistral, Perplexity: ReportCEO Tim Cook signaled last month that Apple was open to larger AI-related acquisitions to accelerate its roadmap, a shift from its historic...
26 Aug, 2025, 07.59 PM IST
Mistral in talks with VC firms, MGX to raise funds at $10 billion valuation: ReportThe funding would accelerate the commercial rollout of Mistral's Le Chat chatbot and support continued development of its large language mo...
02 Aug, 2025, 09.27 PM IST
France's Mistral hails DeepSeek's AI modelThe French firm's own Thursday release, "Mistral Small 3", is "competitive with larger models" including Meta's Llama or Qwen, developed by...
31 Jan, 2025, 04.18 PM IST
Mistral, the French generative AI underdog taking on US giantsMistral was set up in April 2023 by Arthur Mensch, a graduate of France's prestigious Polytechnique engineering school with a mop of unruly...
16 Jan, 2025, 08.02 AM IST
Amazon pledges $230 million to boost generative AI startupsThe initiative will offer early stage companies AWS cloud computing credits, mentorship, and education to enhance their use of AI and machi...
16 Jun, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Cisco launches $1 billion AI fund and makes first investmentsCisco through its investment arm, is investing in Cohere, Mistral AI and Scale AI, among others, and has already committed nearly $200 mill...
04 Jun, 2024, 08.47 PM IST
EU's Vestager meets French tech firm Mistral AI amid competition concernsIn February, Microsoft invested $16 million in Mistral AI and partnered with them to make its artificial intelligence models available thro...
26 Apr, 2024, 08.57 PM IST
France's Mistral AI seeks funding at $5 billion valuation: reportFrench startup Mistral AI engages investors for funding at a $5 billion valuation, facing EU scrutiny over partnership with Microsoft and r...
17 Apr, 2024, 09.16 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: All you need to know about OpenAI’s rival Mistral AIMicrosoft partners with Mistral AI, enabling Mistral's AI models to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform. Mistral 8x7B model s...
27 Feb, 2024, 12.57 PM IST
French AI startup Mistral AI raises 385 million eurosAmong European AI firms, only Germany's Aleph Alpha has brought in as much funding, raising nearly 500 million euros in early November.
11 Dec, 2023, 02.01 PM IST