Most of the world’s biggest AI firms are locked in a race to build “superintelligence”. But Mistral AI, a French frontier lab, is betting against this “winner-takes-all” competition. The firm thinks that smaller, more customisable, open-weight models will prove more valuable. Mistral’s boss outlines his plan—and why he thinks that, wherever you are, AI should be built and served closer to home. How does his vision stack up?
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