All openAI models are available in the EU landing zones of Azure, run by Microsoft EU subsidiaries and in EU datacenters. Other than an irrational fear of them „phoning home“, there is no advantage here for Mistral.

It's real risk; Under oath before the French Senate, Microsoft France’s Head of Corporate, External & Legal Affairs Antoine Carniaux, said he cannot guarantee European data is safe from U.S. government access, even when stored in Europe. U.S. laws like the Patriot Act and Cloud Act require American tech firms to comply with U.S. authorities, regardless of data location. That means, especially with a current US administration acting against EU interests, that a US based AI solution is not safe.

> Other than an irrational fear of them „phoning home“

At what point do we just call you people hopelessly naive and move on?

Microsoft? Spying on you? Inconceivable!

The US government? Spying on you through US companies? Inconceivable!

Nevermind that we have hundreds of known examples of the US government approaching Google or microsoft and forcing their hand in wiretapping their systems. And nevermind there was once a point in time where all internet traffic in the US was wiretapped. And nevermind that Microsoft's privacy policy, which YOU SIGN, outright says they will spy on you.

> Other than an irrational fear of them „phoning home“

There's nothing rational about believing this fear is irrational.

If trump orders the CEO of Microsoft or OpenAI to hand over data to get dirt (or company secrets) on an opponent in the EU. What do you think are the odds they would do it? Zero?

In case you missed it, trust has been broken.

Mistral can be held responsible in the EU, OpenAI and such will hide behind Trump.

Just look at the reaction after the EU fined Google.