法国AI独角兽Mistral获20亿欧元融资，估值跃升至120亿欧元

Core Insights - French AI startup Mistral AI is finalizing a €2 billion investment, raising its valuation to €12 billion (approximately $14 billion), solidifying its position as one of Europe's most valuable tech startups [1] - The company, founded in 2023 by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, is developing open-source language models and an AI chatbot named "Le Chat" for European users [1] - Mistral has raised over €1 billion from global investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and BNP Paribas, and is seeking to carve out space in a market dominated by US and Chinese language models [1] Funding and Financial Activities - Earlier this year, the company considered using external capital to establish a data center in France [2] - Mistral is also in talks for several hundred million euros in debt financing for the Mistral Compute project, a new AI cloud service developed in collaboration with NVIDIA [2] - This funding round comes as competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI are also expanding their capital reserves, with OpenAI completing a large funding round in the spring and Anthropic raising $13 billion at a valuation of $183 billion [2]