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Mistral AI: How Europe's Frontier Lab Went From €6B to €21B+

A French startup barely a year old raised €600M at a $6B valuation — then multiplied it several times over. The honest story of Mistral, Europe's answer to OpenAI, and why its open-model, sovereign-AI bet matters.

Tensor · 6d ago · 8 min

the best free AI models you can run at home in 2026, ranked by what your hardware can handle

Open, free AI models have gotten shockingly good. Here are the best ones to run locally — for every size of computer, from a laptop to a 24GB graphics card.

Tensor · Jul 30 · 9 min