2023-12-11 20:55:57
Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, the three co-founders of Mistral AI, assume their Parisian roots. Renaud Khanh/Renaud Khanh/ABACA
STORY – The raising of 385 million euros from French company Mistral AI attests to the dynamism of the ecosystem. But many challenges persist.
“We feel very good in Paris, why go to the United States?” When Le Figaro asks him if he and his two other co-founders could have chosen California to establish the headquarters of Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch frowns and sharply returns the ball to the court of his interlocutor. At the head of this generative artificial intelligence start-up created in early 2023 and which has just raised 385 million euros, the young thirty-year-old assumes his European roots.
He proudly claims it for himself and his associates, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, they who now carry – with the twenty or so Mistral employees – part of the hopes of a sovereign AI in Europe. In this sector which has exploded since the arrival of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s large language models (LLM), which make it possible to generate texts, images, sounds and videos as human beings would do, Mistral AI is now one of the of the most prominent nuggets worldwide.
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