Mistral: Voxtral TTS, Forge, Leanstral, & Mistral 4 — w/ Pavan Kumar Reddy & Guillaume Lample

Mistral is one of the world's leading frontier model labs, and has just raised $900m to build their European data center hub. Last year marked their first ventures into multimodal models, with Pixtral and then Voxtral in 2025, ending the year with a monster €1.7B fundraise at a €10B premoney (https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai) - the largest European AI fundraise ever. This week they launched Voxtral TTS (https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-tts) and it is filling in yet another important gap in the open source frontier for all modalities o…