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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nTimothée Lacroix is co-founder and CTO of Mistral AI, which he set up in April 2023 with Arthur Mensch and Guillaume Lample. Before Mistral he worked on large-scale AI models at Meta. The three founders met while studying at École polytechnique.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothee-lacroix-59517977/\n\n## What Timothee builds\n\n- [Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.md), graded BB, 71.2/100, in Model APIs \u0026 inference. Mistral's API for its open-weight and proprietary models, with EU and US regional endpoints. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-embeddings.md), graded C, 58/100, in Embeddings \u0026 rerankers. Mistral's API for generating text and code embeddings. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Mistral Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-moderation.md), graded C, 58.4/100, in Guardrails \u0026 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 CTO, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Mistral OCR API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-ocr.md), graded C, 58.8/100, in Document parsing \u0026 extraction. Mistral's OCR API for extracting content from documents. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Mistral Vibe CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-vibe-cli.md), graded B, 63/100, in Agent harnesses. Mistral AI's open-source terminal coding agent. It runs Mistral's hosted models or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, headless with `vibe -p` and in editors through `vibe-acp`. This listing covers the CLI, not Mistral's Vibe chat app. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Mistral Voxtral Transcribe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-voxtral-transcribe.md), graded B, 64.2/100, in 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 CTO, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.md), graded C, 60.3/100, in 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 CTO, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Arthur Mensch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arthur-mensch/), Co-founder and CEO\n- [Guillaume Lample](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/guillaume-lample/), Co-founder and Chief Science Officer\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [ASML Holding](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/asml-holding/)\n- [DST Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dst-global/)\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [Bpifrance](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bpifrance/)\n- [General Catalyst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-catalyst/)\n- [Index Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/index-ventures/)\n- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightspeed-venture-partners/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Timothee Lacroix?\n\nTimothée Lacroix is co-founder and CTO of Mistral AI, which he set up in April 2023 with Arthur Mensch and Guillaume Lample. Before Mistral he worked on large-scale AI models at Meta. The three founders met while studying at École polytechnique.\n\n### What does Mistral AI make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### Who has invested in Mistral AI?\n\nThe sources our research read name ASML Holding, DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Bpifrance, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and NVIDIA.\n\n### How are Timothee's tools graded?\n\nMistral 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.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://mistral.ai/about/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-mensch/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-lample-7821095b/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothee-lacroix-59517977/\n- https://mistral.ai/\n- https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/347458-how-do-i-contact-support\n- https://docs.mistral.ai/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. 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