Mistral CEO Mensch: AI is software, it can be controlled
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Mensch argues US tech giants use AI-apocalypse rhetoric to close the market to their advantage, advocating open, modifiable AI. He says a new Mistral model launches "in the coming weeks" and suggests state guarantees to fund European data centers.
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