The EU AI act, the pillars of which had been set out and confirmed by the EU parliament this summer had run aground in recent weeks, owing to the ‘entrepreneurial’ zeal of some of its member states, which themselves highlight the strategic importance of the ‘scramble’ for AI.
The French and German governments have in recent weeks pushed back against the restrictions on foundation AI models, a move that was driven by ‘national champion’ AI projects in France and Germany. In particular in France, MistralAI is the leading new player and one of its senior executives Cedric O., a former Macron minister has been very vocal on the topic. Indeed, feedback we have from last weekend’s AI conference in Paris (at Station F, which was largely a French centric affair) was that AI developers and entrepreneurs ere militant in demanding scope to develop new models.
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