# Making sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier | Mistral

Samsung Electronics led the round alongside co-leads Scaleup Europe Fund (EQT) and existing investor PSG Equity.

- Mistral will use the capital to scale compute capacity for training frontier models, expand infrastructure, and accelerate international growth.
- New investors include Advent, funds managed by BlackRock, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
- Participating existing backers include NVIDIA, ASML, a16z, Lightspeed, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, DST Global, and Salesforce Ventures.
- The company operates across 20 countries with more than 125 enterprise customers, including Airbus, ASML, and HSBC.

## Why it matters

Mistral secures capital on par with leading US frontier labs to train and deploy open-weight foundation models at scale.

## Sources

- [Mistral: Making sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier | Mistral](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-09-08. https://dstilled.ai/story/97ea1028-8c7c-466b-8448-bfcbf10be93c