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Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 10:32 Harry Stebbings When you look at what OpenAI have said about their, kind of, FDE approach, Anthropic, to, ah, I, I get you on Mistral and they've done a great job in doing that, but the frontier model providers, Microsoft is even fucking doing an FDE…
- ▶ 24:20 Anastasios Angelopoulos RC, Reflection, Mistral in the West, um, Poolside,
- ▶ 41:23 Harry Stebbings I think it's at 15 to twenty billion with like five hundred million in revenue. 2 times in the scene
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 26:59 Harry Stebbings Next we have, um, someone else, Mr R's newest model is amazing, Gemini's newest model is amazing.
Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:05 unnamed speaker And then of course, maybe a little bit in, like, you know, France with Mistral.
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:49 unnamed speaker I'm sure if I am the Mr.
- ▶ 40:04 Harry Stebbings Well, speaking of Europe, and to, to the point that you said there, sovereignty, and Mistral investors rubbing their hands with glee at the potential, um, Mistralin talks to racist 2 times in the scene
Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:20 unnamed speaker Great companies like Lovables, Black Forest Labs, I don't know, mysteries of the world.
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:29 Harry Stebbings Like, when you look at the benchmarks, I mean, Mistral might make an entry at, you know, 72. 2 times in the scene
Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:24 Harry Stebbings Mistral is the leader, but sadly nowhere near others.
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Number two, he led AI investments for Andreessen Horace, where he made investments in Black Forest Labs, Mistral, Sesame, among others.
- ▶ 12:04 Anjney Midha So you call up someone called Arthur Mensch, who is a French scientist from DeepMind turned entrepreneur and starts a lab called Mistral, who is running massive workloads. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:21 Harry Stebbings When you think about allocating it, are you not using compute and the cost of compute as a loss leader for your venture fund business, which then comes in and says, okay, you name any of your incredible businesses that you're in, whether…
- ▶ 55:41 Anjney Midha Every time I kept calling, trying to educate people, you know, four years ago where they'd be like, Anj, but you know, Anthropic is a foundation model company and Mistral is a foundation model company. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:41 Marc Andreessen There are exceptions, um, and 11 Labs, of course, is one of the big exceptions, and Black Forest Labs, and, you know, we have a whole bunch that we're very proud of, Mistral.
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:59 Mike Cannon-Brookes We have a whole bunch of Llama and Mistral running and stuff internally and, and a bunch of OpenAI, right?
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 52:38 Harry Stebbings Could you go and buy Cohere or Mistral and try and have a play there in something that's buyable?
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:34 Rory O'Driscoll Well, Mr.
Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:30 Harry Stebbings You know, we have Mistral in France, you know, coheres obviously in Canada or founded in Canada, but I know you've got global kind of HQs.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:01 Harry Stebbings So let's be in Mistral, let's be in Anthropic, let's be in OpenAI, and let's just index this wave of the best companies.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:51 Harry Stebbings You know, we have like Mistral, a model provider in, in Europe, and kind of sovereignty is that core play. 6 times in the scene
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:40 Harry Stebbings So for a Mistral who say, hey, we're going to have sovereignty within Europe and the German health carrier system and the Croatian transport ministry are going to use Mistral because we're a European alternative. 5 times in the scene
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:50 Hemant Taneja And, uh, I would say one of the things I've learned and, you know, Arthur at Mistral really, uh, uh, taught us about this, which is you can't waste a lot of compute too.
- ▶ 48:17 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Mistrala. 10 times in the scene
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:18 Harry Stebbings You know, we've got Mr. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:48 Harry Stebbings Mistral announced recently, this last few days, that ASML have become their largest shareholder at a fourteen billion dollar price. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:32 Jason Lemkin Whether it's, uh, ASML and Mistral and Atlassian is one of the greatest of all time, right?
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 32:22 Alex Schultz Look at the Mistral folks and everyone.
Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:20 Harry Stebbings We're sitting in London now, and Mr. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:02 Harry Stebbings Imperative for us to have Mistral as an asset for Europe.
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:31 Harry Stebbings Mistral is moving more and more close to them.
- ▶ 1:29:30 Harry Stebbings Mistral. 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:01 Harry Stebbings Bluntly, poor performers, and I hate to name people, but this is the show that we have, um, like Coherent Mistral, and you also correlate that with who does next to no marketing or speaking publicly, Coherent Mistral. 2 times in the scene
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:30 Martin Mignot Uh, we're in, uh, Cohere, and in, uh, and we have a seed investments in Mistral.
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:37 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, even ignoring Mistral, even ignoring China, your fifth or the fifth or sixth model provider, right?
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:15 Harry Stebbings You're also an investor in Mistral.
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:25 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that, we have Deep Seat released something this week, we have OpenAI released something this week, we have Anthropic released something this week, we have Mistral released something, you know, 10 days ago, where, bloody,…
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:56 Steeve Morin As we saw with Mistral and perplexity, but I'm not sure, you know, that was done.
- ▶ 1:10:26 Steeve Morin I have so far, you know, but again, I'm not Mistral. 5 times in the scene
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:48 Jonathan Ross And I say Western, including like Mistral as well, and some other companies.
- ▶ 36:50 Harry Stebbings Does Mistral survive?
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:04 Harry Stebbings We see the likes of Mistral in France. 2 times in the scene
Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:44 Marc Benioff We change that on a regular basis, and we've invested in a lot of, um, model companies, including Anthropic and Mistral and Cohere and many
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:44 Daniel Khachab A little bit of Anthropik, a little bit of Mistralia.
- ▶ 32:07 Harry Stebbings I mean, Mistral, I think Mistral is proving that we can. 2 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:17 Harry Stebbings so I, I'll, I'll tell you, I was one of the first investors to meet Mr. 2 times in the scene
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:49 Harry Stebbings I mean, every week I see like, you know, Mistral kills it next week. 2 times in the scene
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:30 Eric Vishria Um, and you know, and then there's a whole bunch of others coming, XAI and Mistral and, um, and so forth, SSI now.
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:25 Matt Clifford Like maybe you can do a Mr.
David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:51 Harry Stebbings Like, do they just get bought, you know, you've got a couple of core ones, which is really anthropic, Mistral, who have raised a lot of money, uh, billions, and bluntly will not have the resources to compete continuously in the tens of…
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:07 Harry Stebbings But everyone else, like even Mr.
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:44 Aravind Srinivas Judge Arthur of Mistral. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:06 unnamed speaker Um, Google, and Anthropic, Meta, uh, Mistral, and, and, and you can say, uh, uh, to, like, after XAI's new funding round, maybe you can include them too. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:38 Harry Stebbings You know, I think the thing that struck me was when I heard that, you know, Mistral's new funding round in terms of size was about 30 hours of Microsoft's free cash flow. 2 times in the scene
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:37 Harry Stebbings It was actually Arthur at Mistral who said about how they have five, uh, 10 teams of five, and how they try and continuously keep incredible operational velocity in each pod.
- ▶ 1:00:08 Harry Stebbings One week it's Mistral, the next week it's Llama, the next week it's OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:04 Harry Stebbings If we start on infrastructure layer, we see so much money going into the core providers today, your OpenAI, your Mistrales, your Anthropics.
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:41 Harry Stebbings When you look at the quantum of capital that is required to go in, you know, there's obviously rumors of Mr.
Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings What are the biggest barriers to Mistral today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14 Harry Stebbings Can I ask what are the biggest takeaways for you from that experience and how did they impact how you think about building Mistral? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:05 Harry Stebbings Was it an easy decision to leave to start Mistral? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:51 Arthur Mensch And so the, one of the things that we do at Mistral is to try and harvest these, uh, compute multipliers.
- ▶ 15:37 Arthur Mensch We started Mistral to, uh, bring value to developers and to bring freedom to developers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:46 Arthur Mensch Uh, and the, the approach we took with, uh, APHD, uh, distributed models has contributed to what I think has become, well, at least a known brand. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:18 Arthur Mensch It depends on the enterprises, but some have been early adopters and are using a lot of mistral models into in production.
- ▶ 32:35 Harry Stebbings He said in a world where capital equals compute equals quality of model, how does Michelle keep up and stay relevant?
- ▶ 33:55 Harry Stebbings What are the biggest barriers to Mistral today?
- ▶ 35:12 Arthur Mensch Uh, what is important for a young company like us is to be under, under the control of, uh, uh, of the founders, uh, because there's a lot of things to be invented and, and the vision, uh, it can only be carried by them, uh, by us. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:19 Harry Stebbings What was the hardest thing about yourself scaling as CEO with such speed of scaling of the company? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:33 Harry Stebbings If you could call yourself up to like the night before you became CEO and founded Mistral and give yourself some advice with the now knowledge that you have, what would you say to yourself, Arthur?
- ▶ 47:43 Harry Stebbings What element has been the most unexpectedly challenging in the scaling of Mistral? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:27 Harry Stebbings If everything goes right, where's Mistral then? 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:00 Harry Stebbings The other cool question, which might be a little bit boring, but it's just the commoditization of models, and I've never seen them before where you have like, Mistra one week, so hyped, and then you have, you know, whatever bar the next…
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:22 Chris Dixon But, but Mr.
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:46 Des Traynor You mentioned Miestrial, there's also Glamour, there's Anthropic, there's, like,
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:29 Harry Stebbings Like, you know, Mr.
- ▶ 19:38 Des Traynor You mentioned Mistrial, there's also Glamour, there's Anthropic, there's like, you know, Cohere, like there's like a whole chunk of them, and, uh, and it's a bit of work to go around and constantly be trying to find out, has anyone got, we…
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:33 Alex Lebrun So, we probably have most of the existing companies, um, maybe a few will, will be started, uh, there is a lot of hype and it's public, so I can spill the, the bean about Mistral, a new one created by, um, uh, three engineers, two of them…
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:28 Yann LeCun Yeah, one is called Mistral.