Gianna Lengyel
Gianna Lengyel is a Mistral AI executive whose work spans language-model papers, enterprise partnerships, and product operations. She coauthored Mistral 7B in 2023, a 7-billion-parameter model that outperformed Llama 2 13B across the paper’s evaluated benchmarks, and Mixtral 8x7B in 2024. Her career includes fintech sales, McKinsey consulting, country leadership at Amorelie and go-to-market work at Mistral; she spoke for the company in its 2024 SAP partnership announcement and joined a 2025 AI + Change Summit session. As of October 2026, she is Head of Product Operations at Mistral AI.
Timeline
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2023
Mistral 7B
In 2023, she coauthors Mistral 7B, a 7-billion-parameter language model that outperforms Llama 2 13B across all evaluated benchmarks.
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January 2024
Mixtral of Experts
In January 2024, she coauthors Mixtral of Experts, which introduces Mixtral 8x7B, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 13 billion active parameters during inference.
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October 2024
Mistral Large 2 at SAP
In October 2024, she is Mistral AI’s head of Business Development and says the expanded SAP partnership will bring Mistral Large 2 to SAP Business AI.
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May 2025
McKinsey and Amorelie
In May 2025, she leads go-to-market at Mistral after leading fintech sales, working as a management consultant at McKinsey, and serving as country director for Amorelie.
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September 2025
AI + Change Summit
At the AI + Change Summit in September 2025, she joins Tara Advaney for the “From the European AI Frontier” session as Mistral AI’s Head of Business Development.
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As of October 2026
Product Operations at Mistral
In 2026, she is Head of Product Operations at Mistral AI.
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