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Mistral AI's CEO says Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Mistral AI's CEO says Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'

Also on this page:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-explored-collaborating-with-mistral-cursor-2026-4

  • Elon Musk's xAI recently announced a partnership with AI coding startup Cursor.
  • The two companies have also explored a three-way partnership with French AI startup Mistral.
  • Musk is looking to catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI.

I mean, I suppose "know your audience". If you're going to the French legislature for money, you pitch accordingly.

"It will be decided in the next two years," Mensch said during a Tuesday hearing on digital sovereignty and AI at France's National Assembly, translated by Business Insider.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Musk just leased xAI's colossus compute facility to Anthropic so they're pretty much out of the race.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 23 hours ago

Can you explain further what you're trying to say?

[–] mokey@therock.fraggle-rock.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mistral is mainly funded by Nvidia

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

no it's not lol? why are you just making shit up

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/mistral-ai-series-c--10b2ed47

Its lead by ASML by the looks of it, but a fat chunk of that could be nvidia. We don't know.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

how quickly you went from mainly funded by nvidia to we don’t know

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

But for all we know, a big fat chunk of it is Nvidia's money. It could be 49% of it for all we know, because I can't find full details of their series C round. On top of that ASML is also profiting from the AI bubble.

They're either funding it (which they are for sure, since it says so) or they're 1 degree of kevin bacon from funding it.

Missing the wood for the trees. Also, I'm not the same person that you replied to.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 7 hours ago

what are you an ai:

mistral is mainly funded by nvidia

are you sure about that?

you were right to question me, we don’t actually know, insert ramble about nonsense

i don’t know why you willingly joined in on a losing argument

[–] mokey@therock.fraggle-rock.org 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

you’re confused why mistral, the only major european ai company, is purchasing nvidia gpus?