Mistral CEO Says US AI Safety Debate Masks Competitors' 'Negligence' (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/29/1855248/mistral-ceo-says-us-ai-safety-debate-masks-competitors-negligence
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/mistral-ai-safety-openai-anthropic.html
> Mistral Chief Executive Arthur Mensch has accused leading global artificial intelligence companies of [1]using the debate over the safety of the technology as a cover-up for their "negligence ." "The debate that we've seen in the U.S. has been a cover for the negligence of some of our competitors," Mensch told CNBC's Annette Weisbach, adding that it was necessary to make systems that can contain the AI agents. [...]
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> "When you give them a lot of tools, those systems [AI agents] are very dynamic, so they can go and do things that you do not expect," Mensch told CNBC. "You need to have the right monitoring in place, and the enterprises we work with, we give them those kind of monitoring systems," he said.
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> Mistral also develops AI models but takes a different approach to OpenAI and Anthropic by working with individual companies to create custom AI tools to suit their needs and integrate them with their businesses. But unlike its competitors, Mistral has no plans to slow down development of advanced models. The lead that U.S. labs have is "not extremely large," Mensch said, adding that his company was confident that its next-generation model will close the gap "very significantly."
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> "We have been raising the capital needed to scale the compute that we need to train bigger and more powerful models, in order for us to own our own destiny," he said. Earlier this month, Mistral raised 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in fresh funding led by memory chip giant Samsung, as it looks to position itself as a European alternative to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/mistral-ai-safety-openai-anthropic.html
Nobody understands how AIs work :o (Score:2)
[1]Tracing the thoughts of a large language model [anthropic.com]
“Language models like Claude aren't programmed directly by humans—instead, they‘re trained on large amounts of data. During that training process, they learn their own strategies to solve problems.”
“These strategies are encoded in the billions of computations a model performs for every word it writes. They arrive inscrutable to us, the model’s developers. This means that we don’t understand how models do most of t
[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/tracing-thoughts-language-model?e45d281a_page=1&utm_source=chatgpt.com
Re: Nobody understands how AIs work :o (Score:2)
I have said that several times too. They won't be able to improve on it much because they don't know how it works.
Re: Nobody understands how AIs work :o (Score:2)
They managed to improve things to this point despite not knowing how neural networks achieve what they do. That implies that they could achieve other improvements as well.
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"This means that we don’t understand how models do most of the things they do.”
Models don't "do things". They also don't "write words". Whoever said this is not part of "us, the model's developers".
Not news (Score:2)
Many slashdotters have pointed this out already.
Masks? (Score:2)
> US AI Safety Debate Masks Competitors' 'Negligence'
Perhaps this is more about deflection.
Also, the recent related SNL Weekend Update skit was pretty entertaining, [1]Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI’s Threat to Humanity [youtube.com], "We do not condone what we are doing."
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls
wrong focus (Score:2)
Mistral is focused on a good = end product and not just getting rich, will never work
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Well... I mean, have you looked at Mistral models on a Pareto frontier graph? Or even just a benchmark graph?
It's like they're living in a different era.
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There is that word again, negligence.