Mistral AI
Independent French frontier AI company developing open-weight and commercial multimodal, language, coding, speech, document-understanding, reasoning and robotics models; enterprise AI products including Le Chat, Mistral AI Studio, Mistral Code, Agents, Forge and Vibe; and sovereign AI infrastructure through Mistral Compute.
October 20261
Oct 31, 2026Mistral API retires Z.ai GLM 5.2ScheduledModel deprecation
Mistral will retire the third-party zai-glm-5-2 model from its API on October 31, 2026. Mistral directs integrations to zai-glm-5-3 at the same price.
September 20264
Sep 28, 2026Mistral AI opens German hub in MunichNews
Mistral AI opened a German hub in Munich to expand research, enterprise and public-sector operations in Germany.
Sep 16, 2026Mozilla and Mistral AI announce open AI partnershipPartnership
Mozilla and Mistral AI announced a partnership to advance open AI models, tools and consumer experiences.
Sep 10, 2026Mistral AI and Cloudera expand enterprise partnershipPartnership
Mistral AI and Cloudera announced a partnership to deploy governed generative AI and agents on enterprise data.
Sep 8, 2026€3 billion Series D at €21 billion-plus valuationFunding round
Mistral AI raised €3 billion in a Series D led by Samsung, with Scaleup Europe Fund, EQT and PSG participating, at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
August 20264
Aug 24, 2026Mistral AI and HUMAIN partner on sovereign AIPartnership
Mistral AI and HUMAIN announced a partnership spanning sovereign AI infrastructure, models and enterprise deployments.
Aug 20, 2026Agentic Search launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched Agentic Search for autonomous research, retrieval and evidence-grounded agent workflows.
Aug 11, 2026European in-region inference infrastructure expandedProduct launch
Mistral AI expanded in-region inference for open models using new European AI infrastructure.
Aug 4, 2026Shieldstral launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched Shieldstral, a security and guardrail layer for AI applications and agents.
July 20263
Jul 9, 2026Studio adds prompt and skills system of recordFeature update
Mistral AI Studio added centralized prompt and skills management for enterprise AI systems.
Jul 8, 2026Robostral Navigate releasedModel release
Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, a vision-language-action model for robotic navigation.
Jul 2, 2026Leanstral 1.5 releasedModel update
Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5 with improved formal reasoning and theorem-proving capabilities.
June 20262
Jun 24, 2026Enterprise connector controls addedFeature update
Mistral AI added centralized enterprise controls for connectors, access and governance.
Jun 23, 2026Mistral OCR 4 releasedModel update
Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 4, its fourth-generation document-understanding model.
May 20268
May 28, 2026AI Now Summit heldEvent
Mistral AI held its AI Now Summit to announce new models, products and enterprise capabilities.
May 28, 2026Mistral Vibe unified agent launchedFeature update
Mistral AI expanded Vibe with a unified agent experience across coding and software-development workflows.
May 28, 2026Search Toolkit launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched Search Toolkit for building grounded search, retrieval and research applications.
May 27, 2026Physics AI introducedProduct launch
Mistral AI introduced Physics AI for industrial engineering, simulation and scientific workloads.
May 23, 2026Mistral AI acquires Emmi AIAcquisition
Mistral AI signed a definitive agreement to acquire Emmi AI, expanding into physics-aware AI for engineering and industry; terms were not disclosed.
May 22, 2026Mistral AI Studio adds MCP connectorsFeature update
Mistral AI Studio added Model Context Protocol connectors for integrating enterprise systems and tools.
May 22, 2026Le Chat adds remote agents and Work modeFeature update
Le Chat added remote agents and a Work mode for enterprise knowledge and task execution.
May 22, 2026Mistral Medium 3.5 releasedModel update
Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3.5 with improved agentic and enterprise production capabilities.
April 20261
Apr 27, 2026Mistral Workflows public previewProduct launch
Mistral AI opened Workflows in public preview, enabling visual composition of enterprise AI agents and automations.
March 20267
Mar 31, 2026Spaces CLI releasedSDK release
Mistral AI released a command-line interface for managing Spaces and developer workflows.
Mar 30, 2026$830 million debt financing for AI data centreFunding round
Mistral AI secured approximately $830 million in debt financing to buy NVIDIA chips and develop a Paris-area AI data centre.
Mar 23, 2026Voxtral TTS releasedModel release
Mistral AI released Voxtral TTS, a 4B multilingual text-to-speech model.
Mar 17, 2026Mistral Forge launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched Forge, an enterprise system for creating organization-specific frontier models.
Mar 16, 2026Leanstral releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Leanstral, an open model for formal theorem proving and Lean code.
Mar 16, 2026Mistral Small 4 releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4, a next-generation compact open model for multimodal and agentic workloads.
Mar 16, 2026Mistral joins NVIDIA Nemotron CoalitionPartnership
Mistral AI joined NVIDIA's Nemotron Coalition to advance open frontier models and shared AI infrastructure.
February 20262
Feb 17, 2026Agreement to acquire KoyebAcquisition
Mistral AI agreed to acquire French serverless cloud platform Koyeb to strengthen its AI infrastructure and deployment stack; financial terms were not disclosed.
Feb 4, 2026Voxtral Transcribe 2 releasedModel release
Mistral AI released two second-generation Voxtral transcription models for production speech-to-text workloads.
January 20261
Jan 27, 2026Mistral Vibe expandedFeature update
Mistral AI expanded Vibe into a fuller agentic development environment for software teams.
December 20254
Dec 17, 2025Mistral OCR 3 releasedModel update
Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 3 with improved document parsing and structured extraction.
Dec 9, 2025Mistral Vibe CLI launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched Vibe CLI, an agentic command-line coding environment powered by Devstral.
Dec 9, 2025Devstral 2 releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Devstral 2, its second-generation open code-agent model.
Dec 2, 2025Mistral 3 model generation releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released the Mistral 3 generation, including open-weight Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models in 3B, 8B and 14B sizes.
October 20251
Oct 24, 2025Mistral AI Studio launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched AI Studio as an enterprise production platform for building, evaluating, observing, governing and deploying AI applications.
September 20253
Sep 9, 2025€1.7 billion Series CFunding round
Mistral AI raised €1.7 billion in a Series C led by ASML at an €11.7 billion post-money valuation.
Sep 2, 2025Memory API introducedAPI release
Mistral AI introduced persistent memory capabilities for agents and applications.
Sep 2, 2025Le Chat adds custom MCP servers, connectors and memoriesFeature update
Le Chat added custom MCP-server support, enterprise connectors and persistent memories.
August 20251
Aug 12, 2025Mistral Medium 3.1 releasedModel update
Mistral AI updated its enterprise model tier with Mistral Medium 3.1.
July 20255
Jul 30, 2025Codestral 25.08 and enterprise coding stack releasedModel update
Mistral AI released Codestral 25.08 and expanded its enterprise coding stack across Mistral Code and developer tools.
Jul 17, 2025Le Chat adds Deep Research and multilingual reasoningFeature update
Le Chat added Deep Research, multilingual reasoning, image editing, projects and expanded voice capabilities.
Jul 15, 2025Voxtral speech models releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini, open speech-understanding models for transcription and audio reasoning.
Jul 10, 2025Devstral Small 1.1 and Devstral Medium releasedModel update
Mistral AI expanded the Devstral family with Devstral Small 1.1 and a larger Devstral Medium model.
Jul 3, 2025AI for Citizens launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI introduced AI for Citizens, a sovereign AI offering for governments and public-sector institutions.
June 20254
Jun 20, 2025Mistral Small 3.2 releasedModel update
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.2 with improved instruction following, function calling and reduced repetition.
Jun 11, 2025Mistral Compute announcedProduct launch
Mistral AI announced Mistral Compute, a sovereign European AI cloud developed with NVIDIA infrastructure and European partners.
Jun 10, 2025Magistral reasoning models releasedModel release
Mistral AI released Magistral Small and Magistral Medium, its first reasoning-focused model family.
Jun 4, 2025Mistral Code launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched Mistral Code, an enterprise coding-assistant platform with IDE integration and deployment controls.
May 20255
May 28, 2025Codestral Embed releasedModel release
Mistral AI released Codestral Embed for semantic retrieval and search across software repositories.
May 27, 2025Agents API launchedAPI release
Mistral AI launched the Agents API with persistent agents, tools, orchestration, conversations and built-in connectors.
May 21, 2025Devstral Small 1 releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI and All Hands AI released Devstral Small 1, an open model designed for agentic software engineering.
May 7, 2025Mistral Medium 3 releasedModel release
Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3 for enterprise workloads, combining frontier performance with lower serving cost.
May 7, 2025Le Chat Enterprise launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched Le Chat Enterprise with administration, connectors, deployment controls and enterprise governance.
March 20252
Mar 17, 2025Mistral Small 3.1 releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.1, adding multimodal understanding and stronger multilingual capabilities.
Mar 6, 2025Mistral OCR launchedModel release
Mistral AI launched its first OCR model and Document AI capabilities for high-quality document parsing.
February 20252
Feb 17, 2025Mistral Saba releasedModel release
Mistral AI released Mistral Saba, a 24B regional language model optimized for Arabic and languages of the Middle East and South Asia.
Feb 6, 2025Le Chat mobile apps and paid plans launchedFeature update
Mistral AI relaunched Le Chat with iOS and Android apps, Pro and Team plans, faster inference, image generation and an Enterprise preview.
January 20252
Jan 30, 2025Mistral Small 3 releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3, a 24B latency-optimized open-weight model.
Jan 13, 2025Codestral 25.01 releasedModel update
Mistral AI released an updated Codestral model with improved code generation and a 256K context window.
November 20244
Nov 18, 2024Le Chat receives canvas, web search and document featuresFeature update
Mistral AI upgraded Le Chat with web search, canvas, image generation and richer document-understanding features.
Nov 18, 2024Pixtral Large releasedModel release
Mistral AI released Pixtral Large, a 124B multimodal model for image and document understanding.
Nov 7, 2024Moderation API launchedAPI release
Mistral AI launched a moderation API for safety classification and content policy enforcement.
Nov 7, 2024Batch API launchedAPI release
Mistral AI launched an asynchronous Batch API for high-volume model inference.
October 20241
Oct 16, 2024Ministral 3B and 8B launchedModel release
Mistral AI launched the Ministral 3B and 8B models for edge, on-device and local use.
September 20242
Sep 17, 2024Pixtral 12B releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Pixtral 12B, its first open-weight multimodal model.
Sep 17, 2024La Plateforme upgraded for multimodal modelsAPI update
La Plateforme added support for Pixtral and expanded developer tooling for multimodal applications.
August 20241
Aug 7, 2024Model customization generally availableFeature update
Mistral AI expanded La Plateforme with model customization and fine-tuning capabilities.
July 20244
Jul 24, 2024Mistral Large 2 releasedModel release
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 2, a 123B flagship model with a 128K context window and improved multilingual and coding performance.
Jul 18, 2024Mistral NeMo released with NVIDIAPartnership
Mistral AI and NVIDIA jointly released Mistral NeMo, a 12B multilingual open model with a 128K context window.
Jul 16, 2024Codestral Mamba releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Codestral Mamba, an open code model using the Mamba 2 architecture.
Jul 16, 2024Mathstral 7B releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Mathstral 7B, an open model specialized for mathematical reasoning.
June 20242
Jun 11, 2024€600 million Series BFunding round
Mistral AI raised €600 million in equity and debt at a reported €5.8 billion valuation.
Jun 5, 2024Self-service fine-tuning launchedAPI release
Mistral AI introduced self-service fine-tuning through La Plateforme and released customization tooling.
May 20241
May 29, 2024Codestral 22B releasedModel release
Mistral AI released Codestral, its first generative model specialized for code, under the Mistral AI Non-Production License.
April 20241
Apr 17, 2024Mixtral 8x22B releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x22B, a larger open sparse mixture-of-experts model.
February 20245
Feb 26, 2024Microsoft strategic investmentFunding round
Microsoft invested €15 million in Mistral AI through a convertible note alongside the companies' commercial partnership.
Feb 26, 2024Microsoft partnership announcedPartnership
Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multiyear partnership to make Mistral models available through Azure AI and collaborate on AI development and distribution.
Feb 26, 2024Le Chat launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched Le Chat, its conversational AI assistant.
Feb 26, 2024Mistral Small launchedModel release
Mistral AI introduced Mistral Small as its efficient commercial model tier.
Feb 26, 2024Mistral Large launchedModel release
Mistral AI launched its first flagship commercial model, Mistral Large.
December 20233
Dec 11, 2023€385 million Series AFunding round
Mistral AI completed a €385 million Series A at a reported valuation of about €2 billion.
Dec 11, 2023La Plateforme launchedProduct launch
Mistral AI launched La Plateforme, its developer platform and API service.
Dec 11, 2023Mixtral 8x7B releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B, an Apache-2.0 sparse mixture-of-experts model.
September 20231
Sep 27, 2023Mistral 7B releasedOpen weights
Mistral AI released Mistral 7B, its first open-weight language model, under the Apache 2.0 license.
June 20231
Jun 13, 2023€105 million seed roundFunding round
Mistral AI raised a €105 million seed round, one of Europe's largest seed financings, at a reported valuation of roughly €240 million.
April 20231
Apr 28, 2023Mistral AI foundedNews
Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI in Paris to build efficient frontier AI models with an open-weight strategy.
* Market cap / valuation. Company values are AI-attributed: the latest market cap or valuation × the share attributed to AI (100% for pure AI companies). Methodology

