> This is a pretty grim prognosis for European AI.

I think it's an incomplete read. What's the point in competing for a sizeable percentage of your funding when the finish line is incrementally being moved each month? Better spend it on leapfrogs which they seem to have done.

Meanwhile Mistral have a natural ace in their pocket with respect to regulation in the form of CADA and the Cloud Sovereignty Framework. I can't think of another company that would qualify as SOV-3 under that regime

So we’re supposed to cheer on companies that make worse products and only exist due to regulatory capture now?

Political polarization is turning the world insane.