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How Franceโ€™s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American (www.forbes.com)
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Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didnโ€™t work out. But it turns out lots of folks donโ€™t care if the AI is bleeding edge โ€“ as long as it wasnโ€™t made in America or China.

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... [Cofounder and CEO of Mistral Arthur] Menschโ€™s vision for Mistral, and AI itself, can be summed up in one word: independence. Unlike its black-box Silicon Valley rivals, most of Mistralโ€™s AI models are what techies call โ€œopen weight.โ€ In this sort of open-source model, customers are free to get under the hood, customize the AI using their own data or download it for free to run offline (or from a laptop).

The message resonates. Old-school execs are spooked by the world-consuming rhetoric of OpenAI and Anthropic and the emerging threat of Chinese AI companies. Menschโ€™s talk of control and sovereignty is soothing, as is his pitch that Mistral will deploy engineers to set up and run the tech for them. Your data doesnโ€™t even need to leave the office, let alone the country.

โ€œWe are really the only company that allows [building] core business automation and products on top of an open stack, and that is something that is valuable everywhere in the world,โ€ says Mensch, 33, from Mistralโ€™s offices in the trendy 10th arrondissement of Paris, as kids play soccer in the courtyard out back.

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[โ€“] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So a goodenough AI that's marginally behind in coding and equivalent or better elsewhere (especially in other languages) is only good because it's European? They spent a minimal fraction of what the yanks did and made an equally good AI that is better in some corporate use cases apart from vibe coding. Also, it's more reliable than gpt5 when it comes to real world questions. I see it as a good thing, especially because so far, they are not trying to delete jobs in other industries to try to make back trillions in burned money...