French start-up Mistral AI has achieved unicorn status after a significant funding round, leading to a valuation of over $2 billion. The Series A investment of $415 million, led by a16z, has propelled Mistral AI to the forefront of the open-source AI developer community. Mistral's rapid rise in the AI sector, driven by a lean team and innovative models like Mistral-7B and Mixtral, has positioned it as a major player in the industry, with support from influential investors and a growing open-source AI ecosystem in Paris.
What's in @a16z's generative AI portfolio? By leading a roughly $415 million Series A for @MistralAI, it's rounding out its strategy to cover every part of the AI value chain. We've put together a snapshot of the companies on which a16z is betting ⬇️ https://t.co/p5AbvKgk71
Andreessen Horowitz's $415M Mistral investment rounds out AI strategy | PitchBook https://t.co/4B59ZqRGE1
The Largest Series A rounds for AI Startups this year > open-source & china dominated 🥇Mistral AI - $415M 2. Baichuan Intelligence - $300M 3. Light Years Beyond - $279.8M 4. Character AI - $150M 5. Together AI - $102.5M 6. Inceptive - $100M 7. Everseen - $70M 8. Figure - $70M…
With this new funding round, Mistral is now valued at over $2 billion. At the start of the summer they were valued at $260 million. Over a sevenfold jump in six months. https://t.co/9QZPwlBI0F
Our top 3 AI picks of the day are: 1/ @MistralAI has raised $415M in its series A. We covered the leaks of Mistral’s Series A at $2B valuation on Friday and in the few days that went by they have launched an open-weights LLM that smokes GPT 3.5, their dev platform and API. a16z…
Most of the core systems powering modern computing are now open source. Why? The community. Congrats Mistral AI on series A funding: https://t.co/NGU4VuxkgV
Excellent NYT article about parisian AI unicorn Mistral, the effervescent AI ecosystem in Paris, the rapidly increasing strength of the open source AI community, the support of open source AI by Meta, and the opposition to it by Google and OpenAI. https://t.co/pv4djxuIAW
OpenAI’s French competitor bags $415m in series A money https://t.co/uV7C0VsgPy
French AI start-up Mistral reaches unicorn status - Euronews https://t.co/DEcLLpIBDB @_GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence
BREAKING: @MistralAI Raises $487M Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Valued at $2B https://t.co/iLODSE53eH https://t.co/SiKWCpqxSv
Mistral AI nears $2B valuation — less than 12 months after founding https://t.co/bCFBPPFi6I #DL #AI #ML #DeepLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #AutonomousVehicles #NeuroMorphic #Robotics
My thoughts on Mistral's stellar rise: - Successful setup: founded at good timing in the OSS vs closed AI debate, closed a $400M Series A at $2B valuation, and driven by a lean team. - There're dozens of models coming out every month, but only a handful actually have staying… https://t.co/OIAdvI4hVO
Mistral cofounder and DeepMind's "Chinchilla" paper coauthor, @arthurmensch, talks Mistral-7B, a leading open-source language model. Their latest, Mixtral, a mixture of experts model, is making waves in the AI community. 👇
My thoughts on Mistral's stellar rise: - Successful setup: founded at good timing in the OSS vs closed AI debate, closed a $400M Series A at $2B valuation, and driven by a lean team. - There're dozens of models coming out every month, but only a handful actually have staying… https://t.co/fuFuyccLyu
#MustRead: French start-up Mistral AI has reportedly hit unicorn status after a massive funding round, rapidly turning it into a major player in the sector. https://t.co/NaDNJoaoC2
a16z is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in @MistralAI. Mistral is at the center of a passionate open source AI developer community. We think this is the most promising path to achieve widely adopted AI systems, and that Mistral is the leading team on this path.…
French start-up Mistral AI has reportedly hit unicorn status after a massive funding round, rapidly turning it into a major player in the sector. https://t.co/NaDNJoaWrA