French, with a Swedish accent.
From Observer, February 12:
Arthur Mensch is turning Mistral into Europe’s strongest contender for sovereign A.I. infrastructure and technological independence.
Mistral AI co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch knows that it isn’t just France but all of Europe that relies on his startup to deliver an alternative to U.S. powerhouses like OpenAI. In its first-ever foreign A.I. infrastructure investment, the Paris-based company is committing 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion) to build data centers across Sweden, it announced yesterday (Feb. 11).
“This investment is a concrete step towards building independent capabilities in Europe, dedicated to A.I.,” said Mensch in a statement. The move will focus on expanding advanced compute capacity and localized A.I. capabilities, and is expected to further reinforce the region’s “strategic autonomy and competitiveness,” he added.
Mensch previously worked on large language models and multimodal systems at Google DeepMind before co-founding Mistral in 2023 alongside former Meta researchers Guillaume Lample and Timotheé Lacroix. Best known for its “Le Chat” chatbot, Mistral sits at the center of Europe’s ambition to build sovereign A.I. independent of Silicon Valley....
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