La start-up française Mistral AI a récemment obtenu une levée de fonds de 385 millions d'euros.
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00:00 French startup Mistral AI has recently received a fund raising of 385 million euros.
00:05 With a valuation of 2 billion euros, it is now considered a French unicorn and one of the two leading companies in the field of artificial intelligence in Europe.
00:14 Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence startup created in May by the sector's top players, announced on Sunday, December 10, that it had raised 385 million euros, especially among American groups, becoming one of the two champions of AI in Europe.
00:29 The startup had already raised 105 million in June, and among European AI companies, only the German Aleph Alpha has so much funding, after having raised nearly 500 million euros in early November.
00:39 "Since the creation of Mistral AI in May, we have followed a clear ambition to create a world-class European champion in artificial intelligence," said its boss, Arthur Manche, quoted in the group's statement.
00:52 This second round of funding, led by the Californian Andriessen Horowitz Fund, values Mistral AI at 2 billion euros, according to financial sources, which makes it a French unicorn, a company worth more than a billion.
01:04 Future European regulations
01:07 The emergence of European actors in the AI field is taking place as the EU has just agreed on a future regulation of the sector on Friday, without restricting European innovation.
01:16 France and Germany feared that excessive regulation would kill off their rising champion.
01:21 Among Mistral AI's funders are several American tech giants, such as software publisher Salesforce, but also, according to sector sources, the Nvidia group, a world-class supercomputer chip specialist.
01:35 Mobilizing Silicon Valley's biggest players shows the enthusiasm aroused by Mistral AI in just eight months of existence.
01:42 The American press already cites it as a potential rival to OpenAI, at the origin of ChagPT.
01:48 Experts back in Paris
01:50 Like many of its competitors, Mistral AI, which now has 22 employees, offers companies language models in open-source data-driven public.
01:59 Its main asset is that it was co-founded by three French AI experts, trained at X or ENS, hired by American giants but who have decided to return to Paris.
02:09 The CEO, Arthur Manche, 31, is a polytechnician and normalian, and spent nearly three years at DeepMind, Google's AI laboratory.
02:19 His associates come from Meta, Facebook, Guillaume Lample is one of the creators of the Lama language model unveiled by Meta in February, and Timothée Lacroix was also a researcher at Meta.
02:28 With AFP.
02:30 day.