Story
Mistral’s European advantage is operational, not symbolic
The Paris lab is competing on deployability, model choice, and regional trust.
Topic dossier · Reviewed
AI Policy
Public institutions, rules, and geopolitical choices around AI.
Editorial scope
AI Policy
Public institutions, rules, and geopolitical choices around AI.
Essential coverage
Story
AI policy is moving closer to the data center
Rules about models increasingly meet questions about energy, chips, export controls, and physical capacity.
Story
Why the frontier lab is becoming an institution
As AI systems spread, research companies acquire the responsibilities of platforms, employers, and policy actors.
Feature
Paris builds an AI identity of its own
Mistral’s rise is part of a larger argument about language, sovereignty, talent, and European infrastructure.
Interview
Dario Amodei on the economics of powerful AI
A public-record conversation about scaling, labor, and the institutions around frontier systems.
Interview
Arthur Mensch on Europe’s model-making wager
An annotated conversation about open weights, enterprise deployment, and strategic autonomy.
Film
Paris, weights, and sovereignty
A visual dossier on the institutions around Europe’s frontier-model company.
Profile
Arthur Mensch and Europe’s frontier-model wager
Mistral’s co-founder is building a Paris lab around efficiency, model choice, and enterprise deployment.