Mistral, Europe, and the AI Balance of Power

Arthur Mensch’s testimony before the French National Assembly was not about digital sovereignty. It was about leverage.

Europe is not losing the AI race because it lacks talent or demand. It is losing it because talent and demand are not the same thing as infrastructure. That is the argument Arthur Mensch made before the French National Assembly on May 12, and it is the argument European governments have mostly failed to absorb.