Mistral’s open source approach: a breath of fresh air to AI… while it lasts?

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
3 min readFeb 28, 2024

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IMAGE: Mistyral.ai logo, a big and pixelated “M” in a degradation from red at the bottom to yellow at the top, and the words “MISTRAL AI_” in black capital letters

Mistral.ai is an interesting case study in the nascent AI industry; it was founded by Arthur Mensch, a young French PhD engineer who worked for two and a half years at DeepMind, with two colleagues from the School of Engineering with experience at Google and Meta.

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)