At the RAISE Summit, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were mid-argument that open-source AI is resilient and reliable when the venue lost power — an ironic but fitting moment. Their core case: open models let organizations own and fork their AI without vendor lock-in, much like Linux and the web became default infrastructure. Both warned against concentration of AI power in a handful of US labs, framing open source as a strategic lever for Europe, Canada, and others seeking AI sovereignty. The power outage briefly made their point for them.
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