[Mistral AI completes $640 million Series B financing with participation from a16z and others] Golden Finance reported that Mistral AI announced the completion of a 600 million euro (about $640 million) Series B financing, led by General Catalyst, with participation from Belfius, Bertelsmann Investments, BNP Paribas, Bpifrance (through its Digital Venture Capital Fund), Cisco, Eurazeo, Headline, IBM, Korelya Capital, Latitude, Millennium New Horizons, Sanabil Investments, ServiceNow, SV Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Samsung Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Mistral AI's current competitors include OpenAI, Anthropic, etc., and it has released pre-trained and fine-tuned models under an open source license with open weights.