Samsung deepens its AI empire with a potential billion-euro stake in Europe's hottest AI startup

据《金融时报》报道，三星正在谈判投资多达十亿欧元于法国AI初创公司Mistral，这将使该公司的估值达到约200亿欧元。不到一年前，Mistral的估值为120亿欧元。三星已经通过其风险投资部门在2024年投资了Mistral，据报道，瑞典投资者EQT也将参与此次新轮融资。三星不断扩大在AI行业的影响力。该公司是全球最大的存储芯片制造商之一，也正在与Anthropic讨论制造定制AI芯片的事宜。

Mistral首席执行官Arthur Mensch在二月份的一次采访中表示，他预计年收入将在年底超过十亿美元。本周，Mistral还扩大了与微软的合作，美国公司承诺在Mistral的计算基础设施上投入数十亿美元。Mistral正在通过数千个Nvidia Vera Rubin芯片扩展其GPU容量，并通过微软的Azure云提供其模型，包括为金融和医疗等受监管行业提供的无互联网访问的隔离环境。

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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：https://www.ft.com/content/67a5d255-c6e9-4269-b8a0-3105db69c1ec. Less than a year ago, Mistral was valued at 12 billion euros. Samsung already invested in Mistral through its venture arm in 2024：https://the-decoder.com/europes-hottest-ai-startup-mistral-raises-600-million-at-6-billion-valuation/, 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：https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-reportedly-explores-custom-chip-manufacturing-with-samsung-while-insisting-nvidia-still-matters/.

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch said in a February interview：https://the-decoder.com/mistrals-revenue-grows-20x-in-one-year-as-europe-pushes-for-ai-independence/ that he expects annual revenue to top one billion dollars by year's end. Just this week, Mistral also expanded its partnership with Microsoft：https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-and-mistral-strike-multi-billion-dollar-deal-to-build-ai-infrastructure-across-europe/, 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.

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