<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">French AI lab Mistral AI is in early discussions to raise about €3 billion ($3.5 billion), Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/france-s-mistral-in-funding-talks-at-about-20-billion-valuation" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">reported</a> Friday, citing anonymous sources.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double the €11.7 billion valuation it <a href="https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/ASML-Mistral-AI-enter-strategic-partnership" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">received</a> in a Series C funding round last September.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One of Europe’s leading AI startups, Mistral launched in 2023 with the stated ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.” The company has taken a more open approach to its AI development compared to its American rivals, <a href="https://docs.mistral.ai/models/overview" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">offering</a> some foundational large language models with open weights, allowing anyone to customize them as they see fit.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The company also offers closed models tailored for use cases such as programming, voice cloning and generation, and optical character recognition.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lately, with European countries <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/">distancing</a> themselves from American tech, Mistral has <a href="https://mistral.ai/news/ai-for-citizens" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">positioned</a> itself as a friendlier, “sovereign” and homegrown alternative. The company is setting up <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/mistral-ai-raises-830m-in-debt-to-set-up-a-data-center-near-paris/">a data center near Paris</a> and has partnered with <a href="https://www.numerama.com/tech/1887772-mistral-ai-devient-un-nouvel-atout-technologique-pour-larmee-francaise.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">France’s army</a>, the <a href="https://gouvernement.lu/en/actualites/agenda.gouvernement2024%2Ben%2Bactualites%2Btoutes_actualites%2Bcommuniques%2B2025%2B06-juin%2B17-frieden-mistral-ai.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">government of Luxembourg</a>, and <a href="https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/ASML-Mistral-AI-enter-strategic-partnership" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">several</a> major European <a href="https://helsing.ai/newsroom/helsing-and-mistral-announce-strategic-partnership-in-defence-ai" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">companies</a>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Still, Mistral has only raised about $4 billion to date, per PitchBook, a fraction of what U.S. rivals OpenAI ($186 billion) and Anthropic ($161.25 billion) have taken in. These labs are also valued much, much higher, reflecting how much further American labs have pulled ahead in revenue, model adoption, and enterprise demand.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mistral did not immediately return a request for comment.</p>
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