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Arthur Mensch and Mistral

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  1. 0:00Arthur Mench [music] didn't build
  2. 0:01Mistral to be another lab. He built it
  3. 0:03to make Europe impossible to ignore. The
  4. 0:05bet smaller, faster, efficient models
  5. 0:08and a company that ships in public.
  6. 0:09Mistrol's signal isn't hype. It's
  7. 0:11releases, model cards, downloads, real
  8. 0:15adoption energy. And the narrative is
  9. 0:17clear. Open where it matters, efficient
  10. 0:19where it wins. Because sovereign AI
  11. 0:21isn't politics, it's bargaining [music]
  12. 0:22power. If you control your models and
  13. 0:24your infrastructure, you control your
  14. 0:26future. Comment Mistl if you want the
  15. 0:28playbook. Efficiency. Open distribution.
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