{"id":1034148,"date":"2026-09-09T10:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034148"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:07:25","slug":"mistrals-e3-billion-open-ai-bet-why-samsung-asml-are-backing-it-and-whats-next-for-french-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/09\/mistrals-e3-billion-open-ai-bet-why-samsung-asml-are-backing-it-and-whats-next-for-french-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistral\u2019s \u20ac3 billion open AI bet: Why Samsung, ASML are backing it and what\u2019s next for French startup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI has raised \u20ac3 billion in fresh funding at a post-money valuation of more than \u20ac21 billion, giving the three-year-old startup substantially more capital to develop advanced AI models, expand its computing infrastructure and strengthen its position as Europe\u2019s homegrown alternative to US technology giants.<\/p>\n<p>The Series D round, which Mistral described as the largest equity fundraising by a European technology company, was led by Samsung Electronics, the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund and existing investor PSG Equity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI has raised \u20ac3 billion in fresh funding at a post-money valuation of more than \u20ac21 billion, giving the three-year-old startup substantially more capital to develop advanced AI models, expand its computing infrastructure and strengthen its position as Europe\u2019s homegrown alternative to US technology giants. The Series D round, which Mistral described as the largest equity fundraising by a European technology company, was led by Samsung Electronics, the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund and existing investor PSG Equity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034149,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034148\/revisions\/1034149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}