{"id":12984,"date":"2024-06-13T09:16:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T01:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=12984"},"modified":"2024-06-13T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T01:16:58","slug":"%e6%8b%bf%e4%b8%8b-6-%e4%ba%bf%e6%ac%a7%e5%85%83%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84%ef%bc%8copenai-%e6%ac%a7%e6%b4%b2%e5%af%b9%e6%89%8bmistral-%e4%bc%b0%e5%80%bc%e9%a3%99%e5%8d%87%e8%87%b3%e8%bf%91-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/12984.html","title":{"rendered":"With 600 million euros in financing, the valuation of Mistral, the &quot;European rival of OpenAI&quot;, soared to nearly 6 billion euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-vmark=\"2bf8\">According to a report by the Financial Times early this morning Beijing time, the AI startup headquartered in Paris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/mistral\" title=\"[See article with [Mistral] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Mistral<\/a> AI has now raised 600 million euros in funding, with a valuation of nearly 6 billion euros (about 46.8 billion yuan before). The company is backed by Microsoft and Nvidia and has just been established for a year.<span class=\"accentTextColor\">Seen as a &quot;potential challenger&quot; to OpenAI<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"d7ec\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12985\" title=\"3d4c55a8-5a1e-4da5-a654-4764754d4919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/3d4c55a8-5a1e-4da5-a654-4764754d4919.png\" alt=\"3d4c55a8-5a1e-4da5-a654-4764754d4919\" width=\"961\" height=\"835\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"7bb1\">The investment in the company has tripled its valuation since December. \u201cFrom the beginning, we were told that \u2026 this is a<span class=\"accentTextColor\">Will never be overturned<\/span>But we prove that this is not the case.<span class=\"accentTextColor\">Effectively subverted<\/span>\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s business model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"dddf\">For Mistral, a startup based outside Silicon Valley that is working to build large-scale general artificial intelligence (AGI) models, the latest round of funding is a big step forward.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>It is<span class=\"accentTextColor\">The largest so far<\/span>Because Mistral plans to use the more than \u20ac1 billion raised to grow from European champion to global competitor.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"13a4\">Currently, Mistral\u2019s co-founders Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix, Guillaume Lample, and Mensch are still the company\u2019s major shareholders. They are all French AI researchers who have worked at Google DeepMind and Meta.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"db66\">Mensch revealed,<span class=\"accentTextColor\">Mistral uses \u201cslightly more than\u201d 1,000 high-performance graphics processing unit chips needed to train AI systems<\/span>, and spent tens of millions of euros to build a product that is comparable to the huge products built by global giants such as OpenAI, Google and Meta.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"3a02\">Two weeks ago, Musk also raised $6 billion (currently about 43.586 billion yuan) for his startup xAI, and competitors are eyeing the lead of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, which has received $13 billion (currently about 94.436 billion yuan) in support from Microsoft.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI has raised 600 million euros in funding, valuing the company at nearly 6 billion euros (46.8 billion yuan), the Financial Times reported early this morning. The company, which is backed by Microsoft and NVIDIA, is just over a year old and is seen as a \"potential challenger\" to OpenAI. Investment in the company has tripled its valuation since December, and Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch said in an interview: \"From the beginning, we were told ...... that this was a market that would never be disrupted. But we've proven that's not the case, and we've effectively disrupted OpenAI's business model!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[559,421],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-12984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mistral","tag-421"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12984"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=12984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}