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As of May 18, 2026
Hacker News mentions increased 61.4% over the last 30 days. Hacker News is discussion volume, not adoption.
Mistral AI
French AI lab building open-weight foundation models.
Foundation ModelsFounded January 2023#3 of 17 in Foundation Models
Updated May 29, 2026
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Company profile
What is Mistral AI?
Mistral AI builds powerful open-weight models. Mixtral 8x7B rivals GPT-3.5. Founded by ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers. Raised $415M Series A at $2B valuation.
History
Research history
2 research updates
Foundation Models
Mistral AI: Hacker News mentions increased 61.4% over the last 30 days
LatestFoundation Models
Mistral AI: Hacker News mentions increased 28.1% over the last 30 days
1 metricLatest company data
Primary data point
Downloads
48.6M/30d
- npm
- 11.4M
- PyPI
- 37.2M
Tracked packages: npm @mistralai/mistralai; PyPI mistralai
▲ +26%npm + PyPI: Updated 1d ago
Other data points
Dependent projects
938
- npm
- 345
- PyPI
- 593
Projects depending on tracked packages: npm @mistralai/mistralai; PyPI mistralai
npm + PyPI: Updated 8h ago
GitHub stars
10.8K
Main repository stars
Updated 8h ago
Hacker News
225/30d
Position #5 in category discussion
Updated 8h ago
Repository health
Maintenance data from the main open-source repository.
Releases (30d)Source: GitHub release dataUpdates: WeeklyCaveat: Published releases in the last 30 daysMethodology →
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About Mistral AI
Mistral AI builds powerful open-weight models. Mixtral 8x7B rivals GPT-3.5. Founded by ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers. Raised $415M Series A at $2B valuation.
FoundersArthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix
Funding
$3.2B · 4 roundsRaised $3.2B total. Category position #3 of 17 in Foundation Models.
Series C2025
$2.0BSeries B2024
$640MAndreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Series A2023
$415MAndreessen Horowitz
Seed2023
$113MLightspeed Venture Partners
Investors
Andreessen HorowitzLightspeed Venture Partners
Tracked packages (2)
1 npm, 1 PyPI
@mistralai/mistralai
npmMain npm package@mistralai/mistralai
French AI lab building open-weight foundation models.
mistralai
PyPIMain PyPI packagemistralai
French AI lab building open-weight foundation models.