{"id":960965,"date":"2025-09-12T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960965"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:22:23","slug":"first-french-ai-billionaires-emerge-after-e11-7-billion-mistral-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/12\/first-french-ai-billionaires-emerge-after-e11-7-billion-mistral-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"First French AI billionaires emerge after \u20ac11.7 billion Mistral funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three founders of Mistral AI emerged as France\u2019s first artificial intelligence billionaires after a funding round valued the tech firm at \u20ac11.7 billion ($13.7 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Mensch, the 33-year-old chief executive officer, Timothee Lacroix, 34, and Guillaume Lample, 34, each have a net worth of $1.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That wealth stems from each of them holding at least an 8% stake in Mistral, which they set up in Paris in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three founders of Mistral AI emerged as France\u2019s first artificial intelligence billionaires after a funding round valued the tech firm at \u20ac11.7 billion ($13.7 billion). Arthur Mensch, the 33-year-old chief executive officer, Timothee Lacroix, 34, and Guillaume Lample, 34, each have a net worth of $1.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That wealth stems from each of them holding at least an 8% stake in Mistral, which they set up in Paris in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960965","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}