{"id":39462,"date":"2025-07-15T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=39462"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:25:02","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0%e8%8b%b9%e6%9e%9c%e8%80%83%e8%99%91%e6%94%b6%e8%b4%ad%e6%ac%a7%e6%b4%b2%e6%9c%80%e5%a4%a7-ai-%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8-mistral%ef%bc%8c%e6%9c%89%e6%9c%9b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/39462.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple considering acquisition of Mistral, Europe's largest AI startup, sources say, in what's expected to be its biggest-ever M&amp;A push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 15 (Bloomberg) -- According to Bloomberg yesterday.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b9%e6%9e%9c\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [apple]]\" target=\"_blank\" >apple<\/a>Serious consideration will be given to acquiring French AI startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/mistral\" title=\"[See article with [Mistral] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Mistral<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39463\" title=\"f3830c34j00szf84f0075d000jg00ayp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/f3830c34j00szf84f0075d000jg00ayp.jpg\" alt=\"f3830c34j00szf84f0075d000jg00ayp\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mistral AI is a European AI startup that has raised a total of 1.1 billion euros (note: that's about 9.214 billion yuan at current exchange rates) in seven rounds of funding. Bloomberg reports the company is in talks with investors to raise up to $1 billion (RMB 7.174 billion at current exchange rates).<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Mistral has introduced a range of large and small language models, and its OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature has been a notable success. In addition, its chatbot \"Le Chat\" is known for its fast response to user queries. Currently<strong>It is the most highly valued AI startup in Europe, with a valuation of 5.8 billion euros (about 48.584 billion yuan at current exchange rates).<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple's latest move continues previous revelations that its executives had internal discussions about acquiring U.S.-based AI startup Perplexity. However, Perplexity's leadership downplayed those discussions, saying they were \"not interested in any current or future<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%b9%b6%e8%b4%ad\" title=\"[See articles with [merger] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >merger and acquisition (M and A)<\/a>None of the negotiations are known.\"<\/p>\n<p>If Apple does manage to acquire Mistral, it will far surpass Apple's record $3 billion acquisition of Beats in 2014, the<strong>The largest acquisition in its history.<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Apple is seriously considering acquiring French AI startup Mistral, according to Bloomberg yesterday. Mistral AI is a European AI startup that has raised a total of 1.1 billion euros in seven rounds of funding (note: the current exchange rate is about 9.214 billion yuan). Bloomberg reports the company is in talks with investors to raise up to $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7.174 billion at current exchange rates). Mistral has introduced a range of large and small language models over the years, and its OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature has been a notable success. In addition, its chatbot \"Le Chat\" is known for its fast response to user queries. Currently, it is one of Europe's most valued<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[559,7191,345],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-39462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mistral","tag-7191","tag-345"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39462","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=39462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39462"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=39462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}