AI CEO says you need more AI

"The Americans are deploying a trillion dollars next year," Mensch said. "The one who controls the chips, who controls the electrons, who has massive access to energy — that's the one who wins."

The GPUs are used for so little time that this might as well be considered opex rather than capex. Not a good competition to be in.

Just wait 3 years and current gen chips are obsolete already.

Invest this money in renewable energy right now and we can have cheap AI in a few years time after the big American players run out of monies and Chinese competition for the chips has caught up to Nvidia.

Why is it always two years with these guys?

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.

100% right. The need to nationalize and gpl everything mistral has got and focus on making it better.

true, we need a big eu ai!

typical fomo bullshit. sad to see that the ceo of the company is a moron. Maybe we should try women as ceo, see if there are some that are less dumb than men.

AI? You mean the tech that has yet to find a use that turns profit? The tech that still haven't turned profit in any company? The bubbe of circular investments tech? This tech?

How about we wait 2 more years and then invest into whoever finds a valid use for the tech?

Cash slave says that unless he gets governmental subsidies world will burn to the ground...

European doomsday calls are just doomsday calls. They're just copying the US marketing crap.