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According to a post on X by @dee_bosa, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told CNBC that chips are scarce and that he does not want middlemen between Mistral and NVIDIA. He said Europe's cloud partners could not deliver the scale Mistral needed, so the company started owning its compute. The post does not give figures on the scale involved or the cost of this approach.
According to a post on X by @dee_bosa, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told CNBC that chips are scarce and that he does not want middlemen between Mistral and NVIDIA. He said Europe's cloud partners could not deliver the scale Mistral needed, so the company started owning its compute. The post does not give figures on the scale involved or the cost of this approach.
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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told CNBC's @dee_bosa that with chips scarce, you don't want middlemen between you and NVIDIA, and that Europe's cloud partners couldn't deliver at the scale Mistral needed, so it started owning its compute. Original post on X
For AI developers and businesses that rely on rented cloud GPUs, Mensch's account suggests that access to capacity can be a constraint that pushes some firms toward owning hardware. European organizations that depend on regional cloud providers may also watch whether local capacity can keep up with demand. The full CNBC interview would be the place to check details the post leaves out.
Hardware and robotics watchers may want to track whether this becomes a product, benchmark, or deployment signal.
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