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ai morning #65 — mistral raises €3b as openai's chief scientist calls for a slowdown
Mistral raised €3 billion in a single Series D round. It's the largest equity raise any European tech company has ever pulled off. The round landed the same morning OpenAI's chief scientist publicly called for labs to slow down. Those two events in the same news cycle say a lot.
Marcus walks through what happened, why the timing of the Mistral raise makes OpenAI's slowdown call look especially sharp, and what it means for builders choosing a model stack.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:21 Mistral's €3B — Europe's biggest tech — Samsung leads a €21B+ valuation round the same morning OpenAI's…
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