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Arthur Mensch
Arthur Mensch is a co-founder and chief executive of Mistral, the Paris-based open-weight model developer he started in 2023 with Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix. He was previously a research scientist at Google DeepMind, where he co-authored the Chinchilla scaling-laws paper and contributed to the Flamingo vision-language model.
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Mistral AI closes €600M Series B
General Catalyst led the €600M round, split between €468M in equity and €132M in debt, at a reported $6 billion valuation, a year after a €112M seed.
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Mistral AI raises a record European seed round
Founders Arthur Mensch, Timothée Lacroix and Guillaume Lample had no product and no plans to ship one before 2024; investors backed the team alone.
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