If Europe's AI sovereignty relies on Mistral, 'we're doomed': French finance minister

Economic Times TechSeptember 3, 2026en

European sovereignty in artificial intelligence (AI) cannot depend on a single startup like Mistral, France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure warned on Wednesday, amid tensions between the United States and China over the technology's development. about the possibility that Mistral might abandon developing state-of-the-art AI models to become primarily a provider of computing infrastructure, Lescure declined to directly weigh in.

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