Mistral's Arthur Mensch says Europe must build its own frontier AI models

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch argues Europe should not leave frontier AI models to the United States and China, calling that a fundamental mistake.

In a post on X, he says European companies pay over €260 billion a year to American cloud and software providers, and that whoever controls the model sets the terms for everything built on it.

Mensch also says that building frontier AI is becoming a matter of security and research access for European states and labs. The report is a single post by Mensch, and it gives no new figures on Mistral's own model development.