{"id":147879,"date":"2026-09-09T00:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/147879\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:45:11","slug":"samsung-electronics-makes-a-big-bet-on-european-ai-will-lee-jae-yongs-foresight-hit-a-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/147879\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics Makes a \u2018Big Bet\u2019 on European AI\u2014Will Lee Jae-yong\u2019s Foresight Hit a Home Run?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French AI firm Mistral AI raises 4.7 trillion won Samsung\u2019s investment undisclosed; estimated at \u20ac1 billion  <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/news-p.v1.20260908.b9cdd401d18b4f1b8946fca3a2d7abba_P1.jpg\" orgwidth=\"700\" orgheight=\"420\" alt=\"Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Mistral AI Chairman Arthur Mensch sit side by side at a Korea-France state luncheon held at the Blue House in April. [Yonhap News]\"\/>                      \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300                Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Mistral AI Chairman Arthur Mensch sit side by side at a Korea-France state luncheon held at the Blue House in April. [Yonhap News]      <\/p>\n<p refid=\"2\">Samsung Electronics has decided to make a major investment in Mistral AI, one of Europe\u2019s leading developers of artificial intelligence (AI) models. Mistral AI announced on the 8th that it had raised \u20ac3 billion (approximately 4.7 trillion won) in Series D funding. Samsung Electronics, Swedish investment firm EQT, and existing investor PSG Equity jointly led the round.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"3\">Samsung Electronics\u2019 investment amount was not disclosed, but as a joint lead investor, it is expected to have invested approximately \u20ac1 billion. BlackRock and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg joined as new investors, while existing investors including ASML, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, and Index Ventures also participated in the follow-on round.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"4\">The investment raised Mistral AI\u2019s valuation to more than \u20ac21 billion (approximately 33 trillion won). Mistral AI said the funding represented the largest-ever equity investment in a privately held European technology company.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"5\">Samsung Electronics and Mistral AI have been coordinating on the investment since April. On April 2, Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch and other executives visited Samsung Electronics Hwaseong Campus, where they met with Jun Young-hyun and other executives from Samsung Electronics\u2019 Device Solutions (DS) Division. The following day, CEO Mensch also met Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong at a luncheon welcoming French President Emmanuel Macron during his state visit to South Korea.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"6\">Attention is also focused on whether Samsung Electronics and Mistral AI will cooperate in memory semiconductors and customized AI semiconductors, as Mistral AI faces a need for large-scale AI infrastructure. Mistral AI was founded in Paris, France, in 2023 by researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta, including CEO Mensch. The company has received support from European countries and companies, including France.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"7\">Unlike ChatGPT and Claude, Mistral AI focuses on \u2018open-weight\u2019 AI models that companies can use freely. It has secured more than 125 global companies, including ASML and HSBC, as customers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;\">\nThis article has been translated by GripLabs Mingo AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French AI firm Mistral AI raises 4.7 trillion won Samsung\u2019s investment undisclosed; estimated at \u20ac1 billion \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[866,74889,2588,18184,44313,72767,42376,22902,127,276,75002],"class_list":["post-147879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-samsung-electronics","tag-ai-companies","tag-arthur-mensch","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-asml","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-emmanuel","tag-mistral-ai","tag-research-and-development","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-state-luncheon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}