AI will impact the GDP of every country by double digits, says Mistral's CEO

Arthur Mensch compared AI to the advent of electricity a century ago.

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• Mistral's CEO, Arthur Mensch, said countries should develop their own AI infrastructure.
• Mensch compared AI's economic impact to how electricity transformed the world.
• The French startup competes with LLM companies like OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Anthropic.

Arthur Mensch said that every country should set up its own artificial intelligence infrastructure because of what he expects will be a huge economic shift.