Related, Mistral is closing ơn a funding round at $14 billion valuation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/mistral-s...
Related, Mistral is closing ơn a funding round at $14 billion valuation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/mistral-s...
Doesn’t seem like much. Anthropic raised nearly as much the other day in funding as what Mistral is being valued at. Can they really survive?
I find that American AI companies are being incredibly wasteful - they've famously been shown up by frugal Deepseek, but generally smarter architectures outweigh more raw resources.
I think the "frugality" has been challenged by several sources, right? Nobody can prove if they were so inexpensive as they claimed.