Mistral’s saying this because they dropped the ball themselves. Don’t believe the tech bro “we need fields of data centers to do anything” myth.

That’s code for “please help us be anticompetitive”

It’s also a bit laughable, as a lot of US AI firms are going to implode, messily. And expose all the “innovation” the tech bros sucked away.

That being said, vague and conflicting EU law is choking Mistral and anyone in EU tech, too. What anyone in the chain is liable for, how training is going to be regulated by govt, what’s the standard for end users, it’s all as clear as mud.

They should make coherent rules. EU AI regulation should be strict, that’s not the issue; the issue is what they have now makes no sense.

Hence, few in research and no one in business wants to touch the EU with a ten foot pole. Even oldschool ML is choked, and tech literacy among those trying to clarify the rules seems to be about zero.