Mistral AI raises €3B to scale training and inference compute for sovereign open AI
ylecun · x · 2026-09-09
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch announced the company has raised €3B to scale its training and inference compute, with the stated goal of making open and sovereign AI the technology frontier. Yann LeCun publicly congratulated the team.
Related event: Mistral Raises €3B Series D, Europe's Largest Tech Equity Round(22 posts)→
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