| Unpopular opinion: They can not and they should not. We live in a world where free open weight-models become competitive with frontier model within a year or two. It is much more lucrative and proficient in term of business to solve real problems affecting the industries / govs with A.I right now than it is to do the arm race with OpenAI or Anthropic. That is what Mistral is doing and that served them well so far. The problem is not regulation and never has been. Regulation is a best a minor stone in the shoes of A.I company in Europe. The problem is somewhere else: People fails to understand that there is no equivalent in the EU to the unlimited money tap of American VCs and private funding. That's just not a thing here, the investor landscape is much more dry. Company here just cannot stay unprofitable for 25y while surfing on stocks valuation, it does not work like that in the EU. And as such they cannot compete with behemoth like OpenAI that burn 80B$ a year of cash while staying afloat. I do believe the approach of Mistral is the right one: Solve actual problems right now even if not Edge and construct on top of that. Specially if politically speaking, the White House administration continue to give excellent arguments in favor of sovereignty for the incoming decade. It might be the best strategy they have. |