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Mistral
Mistral develops and openly releases open-weight generative AI models as a transparent alternative to closed proprietary AI systems.
Mistral is a generative AI company founded in 2023 to develop and openly release state-of-the-art open-weight models. Its stated purpose is to offer a transparent, accessible alternative to closed proprietary AI systems, giving developers, enterprises and institutions access to frontier AI while retaining full control over their data and applications. The company works across generative AI, large language models, open-weight model training and frontier AI research.
Its product is a line of open-weight frontier AI models released openly to rival proprietary solutions. Users can build on these models without ceding control of their data or software stack. The company's technical domains cover the full span of modern language modelling, from training open-weight models at scale to research on frontier capabilities.
Mistral was founded by three researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta, with academic roots at École Polytechnique. The company states a set of founding principles: open, accessible and transparent AI; community-backed model development; and opposition to censorship, bias and concentration of AI in the hands of a few large firms. It operates globally and is active in developer tooling and software development, enterprise AI, and institutional and public sector AI.