Samsung is in talks to invest up to one billion euros in French AI startup Mistral, which would push the company’s valuation to around 20 billion euros. That’s according to the Financial Times. Less than a year ago, Mistral was valued at 12 billion euros. Samsung already invested in Mistral through its venture arm in 2024, and Swedish investor EQT is reportedly also participating in the new round. Samsung keeps expanding its footprint in the AI industry. The company is one of the world’s largest memory chip makers and is also in talks with Anthropic about manufacturing a custom AI chip.
This move signals Samsung’s intent to secure supply chains for large language models while gaining access to European talent. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch expects annual revenue to top one billion dollars by year’s end. Just this week, Mistral also expanded its partnership with Microsoft, with the US company committing to billions of dollars in spending on Mistral’s compute infrastructure. Mistral is scaling up its GPU capacity with thousands of Nvidia Vera Rubin chips and making its models available through Microsoft’s Azure cloud, including in air-gapped environments without internet access for regulated industries like finance and healthcare.
* Samsung’s existing investment occurred via its venture arm in 2024.
* The new deal involves Nvidia Vera Rubin chips for GPU capacity.
* Microsoft Azure will host models for air-gapped regulated industries.
