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[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Most countries in Europe already are USA's vassals since WW2

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 12 hours ago

CEO presents false dichotomy, more at eleven

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And he thinks the US will control the energy, chips and computing infrastructure in the future? Sure Europe isn't in a great position at all, but the US'es future leadership isn't all that obvious.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The US is fucked on AI leadership, because we're fucked on manufacturing leadership. It's a fluke of geology we have control of pure enough silicon right now, and that's not likely to be a barrier for long. China is about to eat our lunch in every area of research now that the US has killed funding and chased away the best students. What happened with manufacturing, is about to happen with tech and academia. Europe, India, Japan and Australia will siphon off a little bit, but China is going to be dominant for the next 20 to 50 years most likely. And probably won't be overtaken by the US again.

It won't be next week, but over the next decade China is very much going to be taking the global stage. The US has handed them economic dominance on a silver platter.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Blame the neo liberals who outsourced everything to China in the 1990s and 2000s thinking they were geniuses by cutting costs and screwing over labor while handing over know-how and IP to an emerging giant.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago

Good. Deserved.

Source: US citizen.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

the US’es future leadership isn’t all that obvious

What do you think is going to happen in the next 2 years that isn't straight out of a left wing fantasy book?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 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 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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 19 hours ago

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

[–] mokey@therock.fraggle-rock.org 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Mistral is mainly funded by Nvidia

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 points 14 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 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 points 10 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 4 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 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] patruelis@lemmy.world -1 points 22 hours ago

Checkmate soon.

We so like to suck their dicks.

[–] db2@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

And then what.