Mistral announced the acquisition of Emmi AI, an Austrian Physics AI company, to add engineering-model, simulation and digital-twin capabilities for aerospace, automotive and semiconductor customers.
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Updated Aug 2, 2026
Mistral AI is a Paris-founded, privately held European frontier-AI company focused on open, efficient and portable generative-AI models, agents, developer tools and infrastructure. It targets developers, enterprises and public-sector/regulated customers with cloud, private-cloud, on-premises and air-gapped deployment options.
Primary product
A portfolio of Mistral foundation models and enterprise AI products—especially Mistral Studio for building and operating AI applications/agents, the Vibe coding/productivity agent, Forge for custom model training, and Mistral Compute infrastructure.
Founded
2023
Headquarters
Paris, France
Team size
900+ employees (official careers page; third-party sources report approximately 1,000 in 2026)
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
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Sub-industry
Generative artificial intelligence, large language models, AI infrastructure and developer platforms
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage private / Series C; also secured venture-backed debt financing
Total raised
$4B
Latest round
Series C · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$2B
Mar 2026 · Seven-bank consortium including Bpifrance, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, La Banque Postale, MUFG and Natixis CIB
Sep 2025 · ASML Holding NV
Jun 2024 · General Catalyst
Jun 2024
Feb 2024 · Microsoft
Dec 2023 · Andreessen Horowitz
Jun 2023 · Lightspeed Venture Partners
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Investors
The company describes a high-ownership, transparent, flat and low-ego environment emphasizing audacity, rigor, customer centricity, speed, open collaboration and work-life balance. Public job listings indicate role- and location-dependent onsite, hybrid and remote arrangements; the company is not uniformly remote.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Yes
Compensation
Public materials describe competitive compensation, equity, bonuses for some roles, retirement matching and relocation/visa support, but do not provide a comprehensive standardized salary band. Third-party employer signals describe compensation favorably, but should not be treated as audited compensation data.
Benefits
Pricing
Vibe: Free, Pro at $14.99/month, Team at $24.99/user/month, Education at $5.99/month and custom Enterprise. API models are metered per million input/output tokens; OCR, speech, tools and other services use unit-based pricing. Batch processing is discounted, and enterprise/regional API arrangements are custom.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $400M+ annualized run-rate reported in 2025; management/public reporting targeted more than $1B of 2026 revenue/ARR. These are estimates or targets, not audited revenue disclosures.
Estimated monthly visits
9.8M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Mistral announced the acquisition of Emmi AI, an Austrian Physics AI company, to add engineering-model, simulation and digital-twin capabilities for aerospace, automotive and semiconductor customers.
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