Among Mistral's offerings is a chatbot dubbed Le Chat -- playing on the French word for "cat" as well as the English "chat" -- similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT. The bot will in future have access to ...

French AI startup Mistral, often billed as Europe's answer to OpenAI, plans to take the initial public offering route instead of being acquired, its cofounder and CEO Arthur Mensch said at the ...