Founder of a listed tool
Arthur Mensch
Named behind 7 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Arthur builds
Mistral AI API BB · Model APIs & inference
Mistral's API for its open-weight and proprietary models, with EU and US regional endpoints.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed C · Embeddings & rerankers
Mistral's API for generating text and code embeddings.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Mistral Moderation API C · Guardrails & safety filters
Free classifier from Mistral that scores raw text or a whole conversation against 11 categories, including jailbreaking, PII and off-policy advice (health, financial, legal) alongside the usual harm classes.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Mistral OCR API C · Document parsing & extraction
Mistral's OCR API for extracting content from documents.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Mistral Vibe CLI B · Agent harnesses
Mistral AI's open-source terminal coding agent. It runs Mistral's hosted models or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, headless with
vibe -pand in editors throughvibe-acp. This listing covers the CLI, not Mistral's Vibe chat app.Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Mistral Voxtral Transcribe B · Speech-to-text
Mistral AI's speech-to-text API. Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 transcribes files of up to about three hours with diarisation, word timestamps and context biasing, and Voxtral Realtime transcribes live audio over a WebSocket.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 C · Speech-to-text
Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 is Mistral AI's open-weight streaming speech recognition model, a causal audio encoder of about 970M parameters on a Ministral 3B decoder, 4.4B in all, transcribing 13 languages live under Apache 2.0.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Guillaume Lample Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
- Timothee Lacroix Co-founder and CTO
Backed by
ASML Holding DST Global Andreessen Horowitz Bpifrance General Catalyst Index Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners NVIDIA
Questions
Who is Arthur Mensch?
Arthur Mensch is co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI, which he set up in April 2023 with Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, whom he met at École polytechnique. He previously worked at Google DeepMind. Time included him in its 2024 list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
What does Mistral AI make?
Anchor Terminal lists Mistral AI API, Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed, Mistral Moderation API, Mistral OCR API, Mistral Vibe CLI, Mistral Voxtral Transcribe and Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 from Mistral AI. Mistral's API for its open-weight and proprietary models, with EU and US regional endpoints.
Who has invested in Mistral AI?
The sources our research read name ASML Holding, DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Bpifrance, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and NVIDIA.
How are Arthur's tools graded?
Mistral AI API is graded BB, 71.2 out of 100; Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed is graded C, 58 out of 100; Mistral Moderation API is graded C, 58.4 out of 100; Mistral OCR API is graded C, 58.8 out of 100; Mistral Vibe CLI is graded B, 63 out of 100; Mistral Voxtral Transcribe is graded B, 64.2 out of 100; Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 is graded C, 60.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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