Mistral CEO Argues Europe Must Build Frontier Models, Not Surrender

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch published a long essay titled "Build or surrender," rejecting the view that Europe should cede frontier models to the US and China. He argued that despite costs of hundreds of millions of euros per model generation, abandoning frontier research would mean permanent dependency.

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