Mensch at the Mistral headquarters in Paris, on Jan 15, 2025. AFP and Mistral have signed an agreement that allows the conversational robot of the French startup that aims to become Europe's leading AI player to use the agency's news dispatches to answer its users' queries, they announced on Jan 16, 2025. — AFP
PARIS: Founded less than two years ago, French generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mistral AI has swiftly staked out a place as the great European hope contending with US giants dominating the sector.
Named for a legendary chill wind that sweeps France’s Mediterranean coast, Mistral raked in a €600mil (RM2.77bil or US$620mil) funding round last summer that was the largest of any French tech firm in 2024, according to consultancy KPMG.
