Odaily News Mistral AI announced the completion of a 600 million euro (about 640 million U.S. dollars) Series B financing, led by General Catalyst, with participation from Belfius, Bertelsmann Investments, BNP Paribas, Bpifrance (through its Digital Venture Capital Fund), Cisco, Eurazeo, Headline, IBM, Korelya Capital, Latitude, Millennium New Horizons, Sanabil Investments, ServiceNow, SV Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Samsung Venture Investments and Salesforce Ventures. Mistral AI's main competitors include OpenAI, Anthropic, etc., and it has currently released pre-trained and fine-tuned models under an open source license with open weights. (TechCrunch)