This headline was better when I misread it as “Mistral’s AI CEO says…”
CEO presents false dichotomy, more at eleven
Most countries in Europe already are USA’s vassals since WW2
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.
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.
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.
Good. Deserved.
Source: US citizen.
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?
China is already building their own AI accellerator hardware (I don’t want to call something without video output a GPU)
They’re building their own ecology of parts and standards and Nvidia isn’t gonna be part of it. because the US restricted access, Nvidia didn’t get to be the monoculture there, so they’re building their own without them.
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.
Musk just leased xAI’s colossus compute facility to Anthropic so they’re pretty much out of the race.
Can you explain further what you’re trying to say?
Mistral is mainly funded by Nvidia
no it’s not lol? why are you just making shit up
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.
how quickly you went from mainly funded by nvidia to we don’t know
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.
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
They’re part of the same circular financing con:
https://tech-insider.org/mistral-ai-830-million-debt-financing-nvidia-paris-data-center-2026/
They’re being nebulous about it.
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-and-nvidia-partner-to-accelerate-open-frontier-models
you’re confused why mistral, the only major european ai company, is purchasing nvidia gpus?
Do I seem confused at all?
yes, you’re like they’re being nefarious!! look! they are acquiring the currently most popular and well supported product for llm training!!!
“Nefarious”
CEO dude decries American domination, yet is quite eager to deepen the dependency and take the money. That is not only contradictory, but reveals him as yet another grifter. This merits critique.
Now go and learn the meaning of confusion. You seem quite confused to me.
Checkmate soon.
We so like to suck their dicks.
And then what.
