Mistral AI, the French company that develops the AI chatbot Le Chat and several foundational large language models, is considered one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. “Go and download Le Chat, which is made by Mistral, rather than ChatGPT by OpenAI — or something else,” French president Emmanuel Macron said in a TV interview ahead of the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025. In a significant step up from its June 202 ...