Valued at 11.7 billion euros ($13.5 billion), Mistral has staked a place as Europe's challenger to the AI behemoths that have emerged in the US with valuations in the hundreds of billions.

Valued at 11.7 billion euros ($13.5 billion), Mistral has staked a place as Europe's challenger to the AI behemoths that have emerged in the US with valuations in the hundreds of billions

 Lionel BONAVENTURE

Companies selling artificial intelligence models in Europe should pay a "levy" to support cultural industries, the head of French developer Mistral said Friday.

AI models are trained on vast swathes of human-generated data including text, audio and video, which has prompted complaints and legal challenges to their developers from both creators and copyright-owning companies in America and Europe.

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