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Mistral raised €3B led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands to building data centers instead of solely developing AI models (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

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Mistral secured a €3 billion Series D round, valuing the company at more than €21 billion. Samsung Electronics led the funding, with PSG Equity and the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund also participating. The money will expand Mistral’s full-stack, open-weight AI infrastructure and support the company’s shift toward building its own data-center network for over 125 enterprises.

Written from all 4 reports below, not from any single one.

How it was reported

  1. Hacker News·
    Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier

    Mistral secured €3 billion in a Series D round, valuing the company at over €21 billion, with Samsung Electronics as lead investor and participation from EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund, PSG Equity and numerous existing backers. The funding will expand its full-stack, open-weight AI infrastructure, enabling sovereign AI deployment for 125+ enterprises—including Airbus, ASML and HSBC—while keeping data, models, compute and production systems under customer control.

  2. TechMeme·
    Mistral raised €3B led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands to building data centers instead of solely developing AI models (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

    Mistral secured €3 billion in fresh financing, led by Samsung, raising its valuation to €21 billion from €11.7 billion a year earlier. The funding will finance a pivot from pure AI-model development to building its own data-center infrastructure, positioning the company to compete with U.S. and Chinese rivals and offer a European AI alternative.

  3. The Next Web·
    Mistral raises €3bn at a €21bn valuation in Europe’s largest tech equity round

    Mistral raised €3 billion in a Series D round, valuing the company at over €21 billion, the largest equity raise by a European tech firm. Samsung Electronics led the round, with PSG Equity and the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund as co-leaders. The financing follows a €1.7 billion Series C at a €11.7 billion valuation and will fund the expansion of Mistral’s end-to-end AI stack for more than 125 enterprises in 20 countries, including Airbus, ASML and HSBC.

  4. TechMeme·
    Forus, which uses AI to help patients get prescribed drugs more quickly by navigating steps like insurance coverage, raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)

    Forus secured a $150 million Series C round, valuing the AI-driven patient-navigation platform at $3 billion as it streamlines insurance and prescription processes. Meanwhile, Mistral raised a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung, lifting its valuation to €21 billion while expanding from AI model development into European data-center services.

  5. TechMeme·
    Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in the exchange and its prediction market business OG (Wall Street Journal)

    Mistral AI secured a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung, valuing the company at roughly €21 billion as it expands into data centers. Anthropic rejected a roughly $6 billion acquisition of Decart AI, while Google implemented EU-required search changes that reduce service quality. Researchers demonstrated an AI-crafted zero-click worm targeting WeChat, prompting Tencent to patch the vulnerability.

  6. TechCrunch·
    Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

    Mistral AI secured €3 billion in a Series D round valuing the company at over €21 billion, with Samsung leading the round alongside EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund, PSG Equity, a16z, Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, Advent, BlackRock and Luxembourg. The funding will finance 1 GW of European compute capacity by 2030, expand infrastructure and international operations, and support its strategy of offering region-controlled AI services, including hosting open-weight models from China.

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