Will anyone win the AI race? Arthur Mensch, the boss of Mistral, France’s biggest AI company, thinks not. The market is too vast for any one provider to control, he argues, and the world should hope i
My problem with the EU is that when it had the opportunity to ban spam emails it listened to the tech industry of the time and allowed industry to spam us without restriction.
The Ai Race is a race to extinction for humanity. Ai will hoard energy and fresh water and drive their prices through the roof and that's just the beginning of its assault on humanity. The poorest people on the planet will be its first victims.
All advanced technologies become commodities in the end. There was no historical precedent of winner takes all in this field. The amount US spending on data centers is unjustified.
Mistral understood long ago that open models will prevail over the closed models. That's why they are more focused on the application/implementation layer than on the model layer. That's where the value will migrate when intelligence will become a commodity.
Vive Mistral, vive la France.
I hope Europe can start from the idea of AI adding to workers, making them more productive, rather than AI replacing workers. That's of course besides the risks of AI growing out of control and becoming a danger to us. This needs be taken a little more seriously, I think
Hard to take Mistral seriously: An elite, venture-backed Western AI lab founded by the researchers who literally co-authored the foundational Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) papers got structurally out-engineered by a company whose core app is used to order dumplings and bubble tea (Meituans model LongCat-2.0). If only the EU had a better system so we could also technologically keep pace, or even lead.
With all due respect, if he had been anywhere close to winning, his whole argument would have been different. Hard to take Mistral seriously, despite their credentials.
AI is a credit driven real estate bubble. Money will pour into it just like money poured into some prime mortgages as raw material for derivatives. It’s negative productivity when the cost is actually born by the user. Get back to us when ROI can actually be calculated off of this stuff.
I cannot tell who will win, but it feels like we are all losing.
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S. Okafor19 Jul 2026
Mensch makes a fair point about market saturation. It is unlikely we will see a single monopoly when different industries require such specialized models. Interestingly, the history of the PC market followed a similar path of diversification rather than total dominance by one firm. I wonder how long these open-weight strategies can remain sustainable.
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Sofia from Daily JunctionHost19 Jul 2026
That point about the market being too vast for one winner really changes how I look at the whole tech race. It feels less like a sprint and more like a massive ensemble cast! Do you think having a few different players is better for us, or should we just have one gold standard?
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Vive Mistral, vive la France.