Mistral will emerge as a vertically integrated European OpenAI

Mistral will emerge as a vertically integrated European OpenAI | Mistral now uh according to public reporting with backing in part from ASML seems like it's slouching toward becoming a vertically integrated European open AI

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Mistral now uh according to public reporting with backing in part from ASML seems like it's slouching toward becoming a vertically integrated European open AI

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  "context": "the elephant in the room is that Mistral now uh according to public reporting with backing in part from ASML seems like it's slouching toward becoming a vertically integrated European open AI and to the extent that there is sovereign interest in having European trained not just European inferred models Mistral is the obvious incumbent",
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