Mysterol AI, a French company that produces AI Chatboats, Lee Chat, and several basic language samples, is considered one of France’s most passionate tech startup, and is allegedly the only European company that can compete with Open AI.
In a TV interview before the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron said, “Op and Download Lee Chat, made by Open, made by Mr. instead of Chat GPT – or by Mr.
In a significant step in the value of $ 6 billion in June 2024, Mr is now worth $ 11.7 billion (about $ 13.8 billion) after a series C -funding round. Dutch semiconductor company headed by ASMLWhich invested $ 1.3 billion (about $ 1.5 billion) in September, in September, signing a new strategic partnership with the AI company.
ASML’s interest in taking advantage of its customers is an important milestone for misunderstanding. Although the French company describes itself as the “world’s green and well -known independent AI lab”, it is still not known as its biggest competitor.
What is Mr. AI?
Mysterol AI, which offers some open source AI model, has raised prominent funds since its creation in 2023, with the ambitions of “putting Frontier AI in the hands of everyone”. Although it is not directly in the open, the purpose of this slogan is to highlight the company’s openness compared to the recent, closed source of Openi.
Mr. Chat Boat Lee Chat is available on iOS and Android, which reaches one million downloads in two weeks after its mobile release and holds the French top spot for free download at the iOS App Store.
In July 2025, Mr. AI updated Lee Chat with new features that bring it closer to the rival of full stack AI Chat Bots: a new “deep research” format, local multi -linguistic reasoning, and modern image editing. The update also includes projects, which allow users to group group chats, documents and ideas in focused places.
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By September 2025, Lee Chat can Remember the previous conversation Thanks to a feature in the name of memories.
This is in addition to the suit of wrong AI models:
- Misunderstanding 2, the basic language of the basic language that has misunderstanding.
- Pixterial bigIn 2024, unveiled as a new addition to the Pixitral Family of Multi -Model models.
- Magistral, who is the first family of his reasoning models, was launched in June 2025.
- Mr. Medium 3, which was issued in May 2025 with a promise of performance without compromising performance, aimed at coding and stem tasks.
- Mysterol’s first open source was released in AI AIDI model, Vocabral, July 2025.
- Division, an AI model designed for coding and is openly available under Apache 2.0 license, means that it can be used commercially without restriction.
- Codestall, a former generating AI model for the code, whose license banned trade requests.
- A family of “Les Municipality,” models improved the phone like a phone devices.
- Focus on Arabic, wrong Saba.
In March 2025, the company introduced Mr. OCR, a API identified by the Optical Character, which can convert any PDF into a text file to make it easier for AI models.
In June 2025, Mysterol AI also released a Veb coding client, a Mr Code, to compete with the Wind Surf, Ennifer’s cursor, and Gut Hub Coproot.
Who are the founders of the wrong AI?
The major US tech companies operating in Paris have a backdrop of three founders of Mr. AI in AI research. Its CEO, Arthur Mensoch worked in Google’s deep mind. CTO Timothy Locox and Chief Scientist Officer Gallom Lampel are former Meta Meta staff.
The co -founder advisers of the Mysterol include Jane Charles Samueline View (also a board member) and Charles Gorentin from the Health Insurance Startup Allen. Former Minister of Digital Minister Cadrek and Company is also a consultant, a fact that has led to Constant Conflict Because of its previous role.
Are Mr. Model’s Models Open Sources?
Not all of them. The misunderstanding distinguishes its premiere models, whose Weight Its free models are not available for commercial purposes, for which it provides weight under Apache 2.0 license.
Free models include research models, such as Mr. Nim Nam, which is built in partnership with NVIDIA Open In July 2024.
How does the wrong behavior make money?
Although many of Mr. AI’s offerings are free or now they have free levels, Lee Chat has also paid the level. Introduced in February 2025, Lee Chat’s Pro Subsection Price A month. 14.99.
On the B2B Front, Mr. Mustal Monites its premiere models through APIS with AI -based prices. Enterprises can also license these models, and the company potentially produces an important part of its income from its strategic partnership, some of which highlighted during the Paris AI summit.
According to numerous sources, overall, overall, Mysterol AI’s income is within eight digits.
Which contribution has the wrong AI closed?
In 2024, Mr. AI signed an agreement with Microsoft, which includes $ 15 million investment and strategic partnerships to distribute AI models of the French company through Microsoft’s Ezore Platform.
The British Competition and the Markets Authority (CMA) quickly concluded that the deal was not eligible to investigate because of its small size, though the deal has given birth to something. Criticism In eu
In January 2025, Mr. Press agency signed an agreement with the French Press (AFP) to inquire from the entire text archive of AFP in 1983.
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In May 2025, Mr. said he would participate in creation An AI campus in the Paris areaAs part of a joint venture with the United Arab Emirates investment firm MGX, NVIDIA, and France’s government -owned investment bank B -PAPAPE.
In June 2025, Mr. said he would launch a European platform that operates by AI and runs through NVIDIA processors, Incorrect calculationIn 2026. The move was Macron was praised as ‘historic’Shortly after the announcement, the stage shared the stage with Manishch and Jensen Huang, CEO of Ann Vadia.
In July 2025, Mr. Launted AI for citizensThe company claims that the company “changed public services and helped states and government agencies to help its people to use AI with strategies.”
In September 2025, the wrong and chip company ASML Hit in contributions “ASML’s product portfolio as well as finding the use of AI models in research, development and operations.”
What has misunderstandings in the characteristics of the enterprise?
In May 2025, Mustal AI released Invalid agents API to “Empower businesses to use AI in more practical and effective ways,” According to its head developer relationship, Sofia Yang.
In September 2025, the company exposed a correction Connector directoryExhibition of Lee Chat with some 20 Enterprise Tools, including Asan, Atlantin, Box, Google Drive, Concept, and Zipier, as well as emails and calendars. And soon, the data BRICS and the esophagus.
How much financial support has been raised so far?
As of February 2025, Mr. AI collected about $ 1 billion a total of $ 1 billion, some of which were financing loans. The money was deposited in nearly several equity rounds.
In June 2023, just a month after it was established, Mr. AI collected a record of $ 112 million seeds led by Light Speed Venture Partners. Sources of the time said the seed round, Europe’s largest so farStartup costs $ 260 million.
Other investors of this period included BPAfus, Eric Schmidt, Ex -Ventures, First Minute Capital, Headline, JC Decox Holding, La Femgelia, Local Globe, Motor Ventures, Rodolfi Saada, Sofina, and Zavar Neil.
As part of Microsoft’s partnership announced in February 2024, Microsoft’s $ 16.3 million reputation investment was introduced as an extension, which has not changed.
In June 2024, Mr. Million collected 600 million (about $ 640 million) in the equity and debt mix. The long rumor was led by General Catalist on a $ 6 billion diagnosis, including notable investors, including Cisco, IBM, NVIDIA, and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.
Earlier this year, Mr. AI was rumored to finalize a $ 2 billion investment in the price after $ 14 billion. Earlier, the company is talking to investors to collect $ 1 billion worth of equity, including the MGX Fund of Abu Dhabi, as well as hundreds of millions of euros.
On September 9, 2025, Master closed the series C -round by $ 1.7 billion (about $ 2 billion) by ASML, headed by $ 11.7 billion (about $ 13.8 billion). According to the company, investment in the round -backed DST Global, Anderson Horwoots, B -Pafs, General Catalist, Index Ventures, Light Speed, and New Delhi was seen.
How is the wrong porn Ai AI regulation near?
Manishch was part of a group of European CEOs that Signed the open letter To emphasize Brussels in July 2025 ‘Stop the clock’ Implementation for two years before the key responsibilities of the European Union’s artificial intelligence act. Is the European Commission Staying on its original timeline.
Can a misunderstanding look like AI exit?
Mistles “are not for sale,” said Mentch in January 2025 at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2025. “Of course, (is an IPO) plan.”
This makes it understood how much has begun so far: Even a large sale cannot provide such a multiplication for its investors, not to mention the concerns of sovereignty depending on the recipient.
However, definitely the only way to squash rumors of permanent acquisition – recently Name of Apple – It has to increase its income to a level that can also justify its diagnosis. In any way, keep in touch.
This story was originally published on February 28, 2025, and it will be updated regularly.