Mistral

IT IS BECOMING F*CKING DANGEROUS: GROK BOT EATS GPT, CLAUDE, GEMINI, LLAMA, DEEPSEEK AND MISTRAL One prompt and Grok 4.7 reads X in real time, holds 500k tokens and bills $2 in / $6 out per 1M. I pointed the Grok bot at the other six. Here…

Jensen Huang spent this week writing checks instead of announcing products. NVIDIA is putting $250 million of compute access into UK AI safety research over five years, routed through UK-based NVIDIA Cloud Partners and hosted in Britain,…

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Mistral's Large 4 is 1T parameters with 49B active, up from 675B/41B in Large 3, trained from scratch in about two months on ~4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs. Weights land Oct 27 under a custom license, not the Apache 2.0 of Large 3.…

AI & TECH STOCK MARKET REVIEW The 10 biggest stories from today: 1. $NVDA hit another ATH and is close to becoming the first company ever worth $6 trillion. The stock is up ~28% this year, adding ~$1.2 trillion in market cap, making Nvidia…

Open model adoption just hit a tipping point. Here's what that means for builders: 1/5 - The Volume Evidence 78.4% of tokens on Vercel's AI gateway run on open models. That's not a survey. That's production traffic. The switch is already…

A new agentic open-weights model drops Tuesday. 3x cheaper than DeepSeek Flash. 15% better on long agentic loops. Available on RouteLLM API and on the coding agent. Designed for 90% of coding tasks. My read on what's happening in the…

10 founders building in stealth 🥷 👇 1. @achowdhery = PaLM and Gemini lead at DeepMind, now CEO of a stealth AI startup 2. @skcd42 = shipped Grok Code Fast 1 at xAI, co-founded CodeStory (YC S23) 3. @scv119 = scaled training infra at…

The frontier AI market just got a harder-to-ignore data point from Europe. Mistral raised a 3B euro Series D announced yesterday. Samsung led, joined by EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity. Advent, BlackRock, and the Grand Duchy of…

Mistral raised €3B at more than €21B post-money, led by Samsung Electronics — up from €11.7B a year ago under an ASML-led round. CEO Mensch says owned compute grows ~100% in five years and expects ARR above $1B this year. Sovereignty here…

Mistral co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch on open source AI and why no company will want its intelligence running on someone else's grid: "If you assume that the entire economy is going to run on AI systems, enterprises will just want to…

Mistral raising this massive 3B round is a very good news for open-source. Largest equity round by a company open-sourcing models, and which deeply believe in giving its users control/ownership of their models Congrats! We ready for Le…

Mistral AI just raised $3.5B from Samsung at a $24B valuation. That's a European frontier lab now worth more than most legacy enterprise software companies. And they've done it while open-sourcing their best models. The bet: you can build…

The European AI capital raise narrative just shifted. Mistral closed €3 billion in a Series D, the largest equity round a European tech company has ever done in any category. Three years after launch. Samsung led. EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund…

The framing from YC's latest hackathon is different from what I usually see from accelerators: build and own your own intelligence. Not your own product. Not your own LLM wrapper. Specifically: your own agent, your own models, your own…

GPT-6 Astra went GA on September 4. The feature that keeps pulling my attention: async tool calling baked into the base model, not bolted on as a capability layer. Every major frontier model before this ran tools sequentially: the model…