Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation
Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation
传 Mistral 拟融资 30 亿欧元，估值达 200 亿欧元
French AI lab Mistral AI is in early discussions to raise about €3 billion ($3.5 billion), Bloomberg reported Friday, citing anonymous sources. The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double the €11.7 billion valuation it received in a Series C funding round last September.
据彭博社周五援引匿名消息人士的话报道，法国人工智能实验室 Mistral AI 正处于筹集约 30 亿欧元（约合 35 亿美元）资金的早期谈判阶段。此轮融资将使该公司的估值达到约 200 亿欧元（约合 231.5 亿美元），几乎是其去年 9 月 C 轮融资时 117 亿欧元估值的两倍。
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, offering some foundational large language models with open weights, allowing anyone to customize them as they see fit.
作为欧洲领先的人工智能初创公司之一，Mistral 于 2023 年成立，其既定目标是“将前沿人工智能交到每个人手中”。与美国竞争对手相比，该公司在人工智能开发方面采取了更为开放的态度，提供了一些具有开放权重的底层大语言模型，允许任何人根据自己的需求进行定制。
The company also offers closed models tailored for use cases such as programming, voice cloning and generation, and optical character recognition. Lately, with European countries distancing themselves from American tech, Mistral has positioned itself as a friendlier, “sovereign” and homegrown alternative. The company is setting up a data center near Paris and has partnered with France’s army, the government of Luxembourg, and several major European companies.
该公司还提供针对编程、语音克隆与生成以及光学字符识别（OCR）等用例的闭源模型。近期，随着欧洲国家开始与美国科技界保持距离，Mistral 将自己定位为一种更友好、“主权化”且本土化的替代方案。该公司目前正在巴黎附近建立数据中心，并已与法国军队、卢森堡政府以及多家欧洲大型企业建立了合作伙伴关系。
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. Mistral did not immediately return a request for comment.
尽管如此，根据 PitchBook 的数据，Mistral 迄今为止仅筹集了约 40 亿美元，仅为其美国竞争对手 OpenAI（1860 亿美元）和 Anthropic（1612.5 亿美元）融资额的一小部分。这些实验室的估值也高得多，反映出美国实验室在营收、模型采用率和企业需求方面已经领先了多少。Mistral 未能立即回复置评请求。