November 2026The human story behind the startups20 journeys so far

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Mistral AI

Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix

Releasing Mistral 7B as an open-weight model in September 2023, just months after founding, which the company said beat Llama 2 13B on every benchmark tested.

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No. 1 of France’s top 50

Arthur Mensch
Arthur Mensch. Photo: Jan2342342423, CC0

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