Arthur Mensch (born 17 July 1992) is a French entrepreneur best known as the CEO and co-founder of Paris-based Mistral AI.
He is considered to be one of the leading figures of the AI boom in Europe.
Early life and education
Born in Sèvres on 17 July 1992, Arthur Mensch is the son of a businessman father and a mother who taught physics. He grew up in the Hauts-de-Seine department in France. After studying engineering at the École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris, he obtained a PhD at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation and the Paris-Saclay University.
Career
Arthur Mensch worked for three years at DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence laboratory.
He then founded Mistral AI with two school friends, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, who were formerly researchers at Meta Platforms.
Named after the Mediterranean wind known for its speed and persistence, Mistral AI specializes in generative artificial intelligence and aims to compete with American achievements, notably with Le Chat, a conversational robot comparable to ChatGPT and China's DeepSeek.
In 2024, he was the only Frenchman to make Time magazine's 100 list of the world's most promising innovators.
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