European well-known artificial intelligence company Mistral AI has officially announced a D-round financing of up to 3 billion euros. This figure not only sets a new record for the largest equity financing in the history of European technology companies, but also marks the moment when this emerging unicorn, founded just three years ago, officially surpassed a valuation of 21 billion euros. The funds will mainly be used to further expand its large-scale model training and inference computing power, accelerating the development of the next generation of core technologies.

Regarding this major news, Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face, publicly shared and commented on social media. He pointed out that Mistral's 3 billion euro massive financing is the largest equity financing ever received by a company worldwide that focuses on building open-source models. He emphasized that this is an extremely significant positive development for the entire open-source artificial intelligence ecosystem, and it also fully reflects the company's core belief that model control and ownership should be returned to users. While congratulating, Wolf even joked in a light tone about the expectations for their future new products.

From a long-term perspective on industry development, against the backdrop of the current global large model race increasingly concentrating in the hands of a few closed-source giants, Mistral has further consolidated its position as a core AI force in Europe with this round of substantial financing. By continuously investing in training and inference computing power, the company will be able to maintain its open-source and open approach while continuing to strongly challenge the global top level, injecting sustained momentum into the diversification and technology accessibility of the entire industry.