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Arthur Mensch

CEO, Mistral

CEO and co-founder of Mistral, the French AI lab that became the European challenger to OpenAI. Former DeepMind researcher. Built Mistral into a multi-billion dollar company in under two years.

Key Beliefs

Europe can and must compete in frontier AI

Open-weight models are the right balance between open and proprietary

Efficient architectures matter more than raw parameter count

AI sovereignty is a national security issue

Small, capable models have massive economic potential

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