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Mistral raises $644M at $6.4B valuation
Bay Area Times
June 12, 2024
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1. Mistral raises $644M at $6.4B valuation
It’s the 6th most valuable generative AI startup:
$2.2B: its previous valuation in Dec.
Led by General Catalyst, but includes a16z, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Samsung, IBM, and others.
Microsoft did not participate, after investing $15M previously.
Our view: Mistral’s models have so far underperformed
It’s unclear how they can revert the situation with much less cash than OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. Unless they have some non-Transformers technology that is much better than current LLMs.
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3. Elon drops suit against OpenAI, who fights back against privacy accusations
