Every major AI company you know is American or Chinese. Europe’s first move wasn’t to build one, it was to regulate them.
I went to VivaTech in Paris, Europe’s biggest tech event, to find out if that bet is paying off. I talked to founders building self-driving shuttles, AI hiring tools, and the team behind Mistral, France’s answer to OpenAI, and almost everyone kept saying the same word: regulation.
In this video:
– Why the EU passed the AI Act, and the bet behind it
– Why a Paris startup faces costs a San Francisco startup never will
– How Mistral hit a ~€20B valuation on a fraction of OpenAI and Anthropic’s funding
– Why one founder is launching in Dubai before launching at home
– The 2026 EU deal that delayed the AI Act’s toughest rules
Credit to : Uptin