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Europe's AI hope Mistral lands $830m in debt, days after open-sourcing text-to-speech contender

First debt raise for the company that shares NVIDIA's philosophy: the real money lies in giving away the models for free.

Phillip de Wet

Mar 30, 2026 - 2 min read

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