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Mistral AI's CEO says Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Mistral is mainly funded by Nvidia
no it's not lol? why are you just making shit up
https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/mistral-ai-series-c--10b2ed47
Its lead by ASML by the looks of it, but a fat chunk of that could be nvidia. We don't know.
how quickly you went from mainly funded by nvidia to we don’t know
But for all we know, a big fat chunk of it is Nvidia's money. It could be 49% of it for all we know, because I can't find full details of their series C round. On top of that ASML is also profiting from the AI bubble.
They're either funding it (which they are for sure, since it says so) or they're 1 degree of kevin bacon from funding it.
Missing the wood for the trees. Also, I'm not the same person that you replied to.
what are you an ai:
mistral is mainly funded by nvidia
are you sure about that?
you were right to question me, we don’t actually know, insert ramble about nonsense
i don’t know why you willingly joined in on a losing argument
losing argument lol
Tell yourself whatever narrative helps you sleep better, buddy.
They're part of the same circular financing con:
https://tech-insider.org/mistral-ai-830-million-debt-financing-nvidia-paris-data-center-2026/
They're being nebulous about it.
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-and-nvidia-partner-to-accelerate-open-frontier-models
you’re confused why mistral, the only major european ai company, is purchasing nvidia gpus?
Do I seem confused at all?
yes, you’re like they’re being nefarious!! look! they are acquiring the currently most popular and well supported product for llm training!!!
"Nefarious"
CEO dude decries American domination, yet is quite eager to deepen the dependency and take the money. That is not only contradictory, but reveals him as yet another grifter. This merits critique.
Now go and learn the meaning of confusion. You seem quite confused to me.
You are STILL confused somehow
America/Nvidia dominates AI, he has NO CHOICE but to use American equipment and says Europe is behind and needs to catch up, there is no contradiction here
Feel free to tell me which European made GPU you plan on getting next which competes with Nvidia or AMD
You can 100% compete with non-American brands. When there's a will, there's a way.
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