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Arthur Mensch

4 entries · June 2023 – August 2026

Arthur Mensch is a co-founder and chief executive of Mistral, the Paris-based open-weight model developer he started in 2023 with Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix. He was previously a research scientist at Google DeepMind, where he co-authored the Chinchilla scaling-laws paper and contributed to the Flamingo vision-language model.

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  1. Mistral and Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN announce a sovereign-AI partnership

    The deal, worth hundreds of millions of euros, pairs Mistral's models with Saudi data-centre capacity and targets cybersecurity, voice and Arabic-language frontier models first.

    Mistral AI, HUMAINMoney & business · Compute & infrastructure

  2. Mistral AI closes €600M Series B

    General Catalyst led the €600M round, split between €468M in equity and €132M in debt, at a reported $6 billion valuation, a year after a €112M seed.

    Mistral AIMoney & business

  3. Mistral AI closes $415M Series A

    Andreessen Horowitz led the €385M round at a roughly $2bn valuation, closed the same week Mistral released the open-weight Mixtral 8x7B.

    Mistral AIMoney & business

  4. Mistral AI raises a record European seed round

    Founders Arthur Mensch, Timothée Lacroix and Guillaume Lample had no product and no plans to ship one before 2024; investors backed the team alone.

    Mistral AI, Meta AIMoney & business · Labs & people