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Mistral CEO warns companies that proprietary AI models expose business data to labs that may become competitors

Matthias Bastian

3h ago· 3 min readenNews

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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed/proprietary AI models, arguing that AI labs storing customer data gain visibility into business processes and have a track record of competing against their own customers. He advises companies to use open systems, set their own AI access rules, and build custom training models. The article notes Mistral's strategic bet on EU sovereignty as its competitive edge against frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Companies that sell closed models are storing more and more data, giving them a window into their customers' business processes

Some AI labs have a track record of going after their most successful customers thanks to this information

These efforts might seem daunting

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Mistral founder Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models. He claims AI labs are storing more and more customer data and have, in some cases, used it to go after their own customers as competitors. The concern is valid, but Mistral

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