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Exclusive: Mistral robotics chief seeks €200m for new startup

French AI scaleup Mistral launched its own robotics business unit last year

Mistral’s robotics chief is raising €200m for a new startup, promising to build AI models for robotics trained on more comprehensive data than the competition.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

Tom Nugent

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