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Mistral AI from founding to now: its own record, public attention and milestones

Mistral AI month by month, 562 Hacker News stories naming it, funding rounds, lawsuits and the IPO filing on one time axis, and which teams publish what.

Birth to now

May 2023 to Oct 2026
PUBLIC ATTENTION: HACKER NEWS STORIES NAMING IT, A MONTH (PEAK 59)Jun 2023: 7 storiesSep 2023: 14 storiesOct 2023: 24 storiesNov 2023: 16 storiesDec 2023: 59 storiesJan 2024: 23 storiesFeb 2024: 40 storiesMar 2024: 24 storiesApr 2024: 15 storiesMay 2024: 15 storiesJun 2024: 14 storiesJul 2024: 14 storiesAug 2024: 9 storiesSep 2024: 6 storiesOct 2024: 5 storiesNov 2024: 13 storiesDec 2024: 1 storiesJan 2025: 11 storiesFeb 2025: 12 storiesMar 2025: 17 storiesApr 2025: 4 storiesMay 2025: 7 storiesJun 2025: 9 storiesJul 2025: 15 storiesAug 2025: 5 storiesSep 2025: 13 storiesOct 2025: 2 storiesNov 2025: 1 storiesDec 2025: 12 storiesJan 2026: 10 storiesFeb 2026: 14 storiesMar 2026: 20 storiesApr 2026: 12 storiesMay 2026: 24 storiesJun 2026: 9 storiesJul 2026: 10 storiesAug 2026: 10 storiesSep 2026: 15 storiesOct 2026: 31 stories2023202420252026
Attention counts stories whose title names it on Hacker News (query: Mistral -wind); a few early ones may use the word another way.

On Hacker News

most discussed
  1. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 ↗29 Oct 2026 · 1,637 points · 426 comments · links to mistral.ai
  2. Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models ↗19 Oct 2026 · 624 points · 127 comments · links to mistral.ai
  3. Mistral Large 4 ↗6 Oct 2026 · 2,044 points · 1,216 comments · links to mistral.ai
  4. Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing ↗16 Sep 2026 · 591 points · 207 comments · links to mistral.ai
  5. Mistral raises €3B ↗8 Sep 2026 · 850 points · 603 comments · links to mistral.ai
  6. Mistral AI Releases Forge ↗17 Mar 2026 · 733 points · 193 comments · links to mistral.ai
  7. Mistral OCR 3 ↗18 Dec 2025 · 694 points · 130 comments · links to mistral.ai
  8. Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI ↗9 Dec 2025 · 745 points · 349 comments · links to mistral.ai

Public discussion, not the company's words; threads with the most points that name it in the title.

Every figure on this page comes from a named document with the exact sentence it was taken from; open “Exact text in the source” under any line. People appear in public roles from the company's own filings and pages. Not investment advice.