2024年Q3 Mistral AI (仏Paris・2023年Arthur Mensch + Timothée Lacroix + Guillaume Lample (元Meta AI) 共同創業・累計funding $640M+/Series B + $6B valuation・欧州AI startup leader + Open weights LLM specialty brand) 発表Pixtral 12B・Industry-leading Open-source multimodal LLM・Mistral first multimodal Open weights model + Apache 2.0 license + 12B parameters + Vision encoder integrated + Industry-leading Open multimodal LLM Pioneer + Industry-leading Cost-effective multimodal LLM + 欧州AI Industry-leading Open weights multimodal brand。