# Frontier AI. For all of us.

We exist to make frontier AI accessible to everyone.

## We believe  in a future where AI is abundant and accessible.  We aspire to empower the world to build with—and benefit from—the most significant technology of our time.

We are Mistral AI, a pioneering French artificial intelligence startup founded in April 2023 by three visionary researchers: Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix.

United by their shared academic roots at École Polytechnique and experiences at Google DeepMind and Meta, they envisioned a different, audacious approach to artificial intelligence—to challenge the opaque-box nature of ‘big AI’, and making this cutting-edge technology accessible to all.

This manifested into the company’s mission of democratizing artificial intelligence through open-source, efficient, and innovative AI models, products, and solutions.

### 800+

#### Team members

### 30+

#### Different nationalities

### 50%

#### Female leaders

### Latest updates.

#### Mistral Small 3

Mistral Small 3: Apache 2.0, 81% MMLU, 150 tokens/s

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#### Codestral 25.01

Access the Codestral 25.01 API

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#### Mistral has entered the chat

Search, vision, ideation, coding… all yours for free.

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#### Purr-fectly informed

Le Chat and AFP team up to deliver AI powered by news, providing Le Chat users with richer, more reliable and more accurate responses.

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## Build the future with us.