Published on January 1, 2025 at 08:47. / Modified on January 1, 2025 at 09:35.
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In the midst of economic decline compared to the United States and China, Europe still has small technological nuggets. All week, Time offers you a portrait of five companies trying to compete in the face of merciless competition.
It is the symbol of the success of the french tech, the standard bearer of European sovereignty in artificial intelligence, the pride of Emmanuel Macron… It is an understatement to say that Mistral AI carries very heavy expectations on its shoulders. The very young start-up is only twenty months old – it was created in April 2023 – but it is regularly presented as the French, or even European, alternative to giants such as OpenAI, Microsoft or Google. Will Mistral AI hold up in an artificial intelligence market in constant upheaval? This is far from certain.
One thing is certain: over the last twenty months, everything has gone very quickly for the Parisian start-up. It was first well born, created by big names in artificial intelligence (AI). Its director, Arthur Mensch, 32, worked at DeepMind, Google’s AI subsidiary. The co-founders, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, come from Meta.
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