# Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier

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- Publisher: Mistral AI
- Category: AI
- Original publication time: 2026-09-08T12:00:22Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-01T20:28:42Z
- Original source: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-7db995c30f47deac2486

## The brief

Mistral says it raised €3 billion in a Series D round at a valuation above €21 billion after the investment. Samsung Electronics led the round, with Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity as co-leads. The company plans to expand AI research, computing infrastructure and international commercial operations, supporting its strategy of open-weight models and enterprise systems that customers can control.

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