Releases

Mistral AI introduced self-service fine-tuning through La Plateforme and released customization tooling.

Mistral AI released Codestral, its first generative model specialized for code, under the Mistral AI Non-Production License.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x22B, a larger open sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Microsoft invested €15 million in Mistral AI through a convertible note alongside the companies' commercial partnership.

Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multiyear partnership to make Mistral models available through Azure AI and collaborate on AI development and distribution.

Mistral AI launched Le Chat, its conversational AI assistant.

Mistral AI introduced Mistral Small as its efficient commercial model tier.

Mistral AI launched its first flagship commercial model, Mistral Large.

Mistral AI completed a €385 million Series A at a reported valuation of about €2 billion.

Mistral AI launched La Plateforme, its developer platform and API service.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B, an Apache-2.0 sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Mistral AI released Mistral 7B, its first open-weight language model, under the Apache 2.0 license.

Mistral AI raised a €105 million seed round, one of Europe's largest seed financings, at a reported valuation of roughly €240 million.

Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI in Paris to build efficient frontier AI models with an open-weight strategy.