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Arthur Mensch

Mistral AI co-founder and CEO

Once the supply is monopolized by American players, we suddenly have no supply left and can no longer convert electrons into tokens.

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AI Verified Verified: the official French National Assembly transcript of Arthur Mensch’s May 12, 2026 hearing records him saying, “Une fois que celle-ci est monopolisée par des acteurs américains, il ne nous reste plus rien : nous ne pouvons plus transformer des électrons en tokens.” Cybernews also publishes a near-identical English rendering. Attribution to Mensch is correct; the English quote in your prompt is a faithful translation, though not the only published wording. ([assemblee-nationale.fr](https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/opendata/CRCANR5L17S2026PO878304N042.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Checked all dimensions. Year: 2026 (current; statement made at French National Assembly hearing on 13 May 2026). Author: Arthur Mensch, Mistral AI co-founder and CEO — quote is consistent with his well-documented warnings about European AI dependence on US providers. Vote alignment: statement "The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers" with a "for" vote is correct — Mensch warns that if supply is monopolized by American players, Europe could "no longer convert electrons into tokens," explicitly arguing Europe must build its own sovereign AI infrastructure. Source: direct fetch of cybernews.com returns HTTP 403 to automated requests, but an independent web search confirmed this exact cybernews article ("Europe vassal state") reports the quote (the search snippet returned the near-verbatim line "we can no longer transform electrons into tokens," a minor translation variant from the French original), confirming the source contains the quote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 4mo ago

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Require frontier AI labs to conduct nearly all R&D publicly but keep the weights closed

We believe that open-wide models should be the basis for building all the AI software in the world. By having an open ecosystem of people that have aligned incentives to create assets that are going to be great for humanity, we can accelerate progres...

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity

Those extreme risks are still science fiction. So these speeches are largely diversions, very deliberately crafted.

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Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI

So I don't see any risk associated with open sourcing models. I only see benefits.

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