- Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch said that countries should develop their own IA infrastructure.
- Mensch compared the economic impact of AI to the way electricity has transformed the world.
- The French startup is in competition with LLM companies such as Openai, Deepseek and Anthropic.
Arthur Mensch said that each country should set up its own artificial intelligence infrastructure due to what it is waiting for will be a huge economic change.
“This will have an impact on the GDP of each two -digit country in the coming years,” said Mensch, CEO of the French startup of the Mistral AI, in an episode of the Podcast A16z downloaded Thursday.
The gross domestic product is a common measure of the value of goods and services produced in a country.
Mensch said that nations that are not installed AI systems Risk of money flowing towards other countries.
He compared the AI to the advent of electricity: “100 years ago, if you do not build electricity factories, you prepare to buy it from your neighbors, which, in the end, is not great because it creates dependencies.”
The CEO has added that AI also differs from electricity in certain key areas. It is a technology producing content that could transmit the values and culture of a country, which is why it said that AI requires more involvement than electricity.
Mensch, who co -founded mistral in 2023, appeared on the Sovereign episode focused on the AI with the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang. The two CEOs have agreed that each country must find a national AI strategy and strengthen its own AI capacities because technology will be widely used, including in the public service, agriculture and defense. Huang has already made similar comments, especially directly to government representatives.
Mistral, founded by former researchers Deepmind and Meta, built models of large languages and has published a generative AI chatbot called “Le Chat”. He competes directly with Openai, Anthropic and Deepseek and says that his models can work much faster than his peers.
One of the most precious startups in Europe, Mistral was lastly evaluated at $ 6.2 billion in a June financing cycle which included General Capital, Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz. In January, Mensch said he was planning to return the public company instead of being acquired.
Mensch also strongly pleads to keep the large tongue models open and reiterated his position on the podcast. Those who support open source say that technology makes it possible to develop quickly and democratically, because anyone can modify and redistribute the code. On the other hand, defenders of closed source models, such as Openai, argue that they are more secure because the code is kept private.
“Between 2010 and 2020, there was an acceleration of progress because each laboratory was built on each other and it is something that disappeared with the first models of the great language of open IA in particular, “he said.” Returning this open steering wheel of “I contribute something, then another laboratory contributes to something else, then it is it” is the reason why we created Mistral “.
Last month, Mensch said that the new model of the Chinese startup Deepseek was a boost for the open-source world.