{"id":56280,"date":"2026-05-30T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/56280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:55:17","slug":"chief-scientist-and-co-founder-of-europes-most-prominent-ai-startup-warns-region-cannot-afford-to-rely-on-us-for-superintelligence-very-soon-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/56280\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief scientist and co-founder of Europe\u2019s most prominent AI startup warns region cannot afford to rely on US for Superintelligence: \u2018Very soon in \u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mistral-ai.jpg\" alt=\"Chief scientist and co-founder of Europe\u2019s most prominent AI startup warns region cannot afford to rely on US for Superintelligence: \u2018Very soon in \u2026\u2019\" title=\"Image for representative purpose\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Image for representative purpose The chief scientist and co-founder of Mistral AI, Europe\u2019s leading artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has issued a stark warning: Europe must urgently build its own \u201csuperintelligence\u201d because it cannot afford to rely on American tech giants. Guillaume Lample, speaking ahead of a company event in Paris recently, warned that the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is just around the corner.\u201cVery soon in the future, we are probably going to see AGI or superintelligence, so it is very important that we have access to these models also in Europe,\u201d Lample said. He painted a grim picture of a future where commercial or geopolitical rivals could withhold life-saving technologies, like cancer cures or major scientific breakthroughs, from Europe if the region lacks its own systems. &#8220;If we don\u2019t have access to it, I think we can only imagine how bad it is going to be. It is absolutely critical that we get there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s push for tech independence and big hurdle<\/p>\n<p>This warning comes as political tensions reshape the tech world. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, recent US tariffs and geopolitical moves have given Europe a wake-up call, pushing governments to start replacing American software with homegrown alternatives, allowing them to reduce reliance on US-based tech companies.Mistral AI has built its reputation by capitalising on this desire for independence. The Paris-based startup sells access to AI models hosted entirely on European data centres, keeping them free from American and Chinese control.Even as the company is expanding and chasing superintelligence, Mistral\u2019s CEO, Arthur Mensch, admitted that competing with American cash is their biggest hurdle. Unlike US tech giants that can spend tens of billions ahead of time, Mistral has to borrow money to build data centres based on contracts they have already signed.\u201cWe can\u2019t put 50 billion [dollars] on the table to build a gigawatt ahead of demand.That\u2019s potentially our biggest bottleneck,\u201d Mensch said. Mistral was founded by three French researchers who previously worked at Google and Meta, the company has traditionally pitched itself as a practical, business-focused player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image for representative purpose The chief scientist and co-founder of Mistral AI, Europe\u2019s leading artificial intelligence (AI) startup,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33052,33049,4,33051,33050,1697,33048,33053],"class_list":["post-56280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-europe","tag-ai-models-in-europe","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-europe","tag-european-tech-independence","tag-guillaume-lample","tag-mistral-ai","tag-superintelligence","tag-us-tech-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}