I saw someone joke that "once Mistral gets back from their European summer, they'll really be in it", and damn, it does feel like that happened.

At least the VCs seem to be back from holiday. But I always think about this twitter story from Jack Morris when I hear about AI startups in Europe:

> their plan. to be the first to market with a certain type of multilingual model

> early in year: incorporate. start building

> hired an awesome team by march

> scraped / acquired all the data by june

> critical infra almost ready by july

> then comes august

> entire team goes on vacation for the entire month

> while they're gone, at least three competitors launch models

> team returns in september

> office vibe completely dead

> startup pivots to consulting