2026-09-10 · Fuente：SiliconANGLE p2
The French open-source AI lab raised €3 billion, about $3.49 billion, with Samsung Electronics leading a syndicate of more than two dozen investors including Salesforce Ventures, Nvidia and ASML.
Mistral AI SAS, the French artificial intelligence developer that has built its reputation on open-source models, announced Tuesday that it has closed a funding round totaling €3 billion, or approximately $3.49 billion. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. took the lead investor position in the round, placing one of the world's largest electronics groups at the top of the cap table.
Samsung did not act alone. More than two dozen additional backers joined the round, with Salesforce Ventures, Nvidia Corp. and ASML Holdings NV identified among them. ASML's presence carries particular weight: the company led Mistral's previous funding round, making it a returning supporter that has now backed the French lab across consecutive raises.
The composition of the syndicate is striking for a company whose core business is AI models. Samsung, Nvidia and ASML are all deeply embedded in the semiconductor value chain — spanning chip manufacturing, lithography equipment and electronics systems — while Salesforce Ventures brings an enterprise software perspective. For an open-source AI lab, drawing capital at once from across the compute hardware stack and from software-focused investors is an unusual combination, one that ties Mistral's model ambitions directly to the firms building the underlying infrastructure.
The scale of the raise — €3 billion in a single round — and the breadth of the syndicate behind it underline how much financial backing has converged on Mistral. With Samsung at the helm and a roster of more than two dozen investors spanning chips and enterprise software, the French lab exits the round with a capital base drawn from across the technology industry — and with renewed backing from ASML, the firm that led its previous raise.
Etiquetas: Mistral AI · Samsung Electronics · Salesforce Ventures · Nvidia · ASML · Funding Round
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