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Mistral AI's CEO says Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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You can't both "move slower with intention" and still consume the "move fast and break things" products.
If Europe is going to allow the big corporations to chip away at their corporations, then they'll get the worst of both worlds; reliant on foreign technology with no in house capabilities.
That is why Europe needs to invest in true tech sovereignty and not LLMs because LLMs are honestly a dead-end that will only produce useless results. They need to shore up open source projects, OS, infrastructure, sustainable manufacturing, and companies that can provide useful/productive services. I also think that figuring out how to extend the lifetime of already existing tech in a fruitful way...Would be a great route too, permacomputing could be a good avenue to pursue. To cut down reliance on producing a steady stream of components. Instead, creating parts with long-term usability and repairability in mind.
This will reduce and remove the reliance on USA technology, making them powerless in the European space.
Yeah, this is a distraction to make them waste time. In 2 years they could be 100% completely weaned off of Microsoft SaaS if they stepped strategically. That's much more important than generating pics of big titty anime girls and 15 second videos of talking animals.
Interesting idea on the perma-computing. Imagine if they made modulate repairable gear that could survive a solar flare. Even if it was slow and clunky 90s level CPU tech, critical systems remaining functional when everyone else's shit gets fried would be a massive win.