Arthur Mensch (AI / Large Language Models) at Mistral AI — Paris, France
Arthur Mensch co-founded Mistral AI in 2023 alongside Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, all former researchers from DeepMind and Meta. Mistral raised €105 million in the largest seed round in European tech history and has released highly efficient open-weight models like Mistral 7B and Mixtral that outperform much larger closed models. Mensch is a strong advocate for European AI sovereignty and open-source AI development.