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Mistral chief executive Arthur Mensch argues Europe must build frontier AI models rather than leave the field to the US and China. His case is about control as much as competition: whoever owns a closed model can change its price, restrict its uses or withdraw access.
Why it mattersMensch says European companies already pay more than €260 billion a year to American cloud and software providers. He argues that open models help, but are only part of the answer if Europe cannot shape what gets built and released. The argument, reported by Cybernews from a LinkedIn post dated 15 October, is a pointed intervention in Europe’s AI sovereignty debate.
Discuss: Should Europe prioritise building its own frontier models, even if that means backing fewer open alternatives?
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