Mistral CEO: Europe faces ‘complete trap’ without frontier AI

BERLIN — Europe risks falling into a “complete trap” if it focuses on industrial AI while leaving frontier models to the U.S. and China, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch said in an interview Monday. On the sidelines of the Digital Summit in Berlin, Mensch said Europe needs to build its own computing capacity and advanced AI models to ensure security. He added that Europe cannot assume it will always have access to the most powerful foreign models, pointing to the risk that the U.S. and China could deploy export controls on AI.