# Mistral AI French AI company headquartered in Paris. Founded in April 2023 by [[Arthur Mensch]], [[Guillaume Lample]], and [[Timothée Lacroix]] (former Meta and Google DeepMind researchers). Valued at over $14B with $3B+ in total funding. Develops both open-weight and proprietary large language models. ## Founders - **Arthur Mensch** (CEO): Former Google DeepMind - **Guillaume Lample**: Former Meta AI - **Timothée Lacroix**: Former Meta AI ## Key models ### Flagship - **[[Mistral Large 3]]** (Dec 2025): Sparse mixture-of-experts, 41B active / 675B total parameters - **[[Mistral Medium 3.5]]** (Apr 2026): Open-weights flagship merged model; 128B dense; 256k context; default driver behind Mistral Vibe and [[Le Chat]] - **[[Mistral Medium]]**: Mid-range line covering versions 3 / 3.1 / 3.5 ### Small / Efficient - **[[Mistral Small 4]]** (Mar 2026): Unified instruct + reasoning + multimodal + coding, MoE 119B total / 6B active, Apache 2.0 - **[[Mistral Small 3.1]]** (Mar 2025): Smaller, efficient model - **[[Ministral 3]]** (Oct 2024): Small, dense edge/on-device models ### Reasoning - **[[Magistral Small]]** (Jun 2025): Open-source reasoning model with chain-of-thought - **[[Magistral Medium]]** (Jun 2025): Proprietary reasoning model ### Speech - **[[Voxtral Transcribe 2]]** (Feb 2026): State-of-the-art speech-to-text with diarization, 13 languages ### Vision / Multimodal - **[[Pixtral]]**: Vision-language model family (12B and Large) ### Code - **[[Codestral]]**: Code generation model - **[[Devstral]]**: Agentic coding model ## Platform - **[[La Plateforme]]**: API access and AI Studio - **[[Le Chat]]**: Consumer chat assistant - **[[Mistral Compute]]** (planned 2026): European AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA ## References - Website: https://mistral.ai - About: https://mistral.ai/about - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_AI ## Related - [[Voxtral Transcribe 2]] - [[Mistral SDK]] - [[Anthropic]] - [[OpenAI]]