It's true that Mistral AI's valuation can signal a certain market sentiment, but to claim it's the primary informational context for judging the AI Act's viability is an overreach. Investor confidence in one company, however significant, doesn't fully capture the upper bound of legal and technical viability for an entire regulatory framework. You can't draw the full expression of a complex regulation's impact from a single financial event, much like you wouldn't assess the health of an entire forest from one strong tree. For instance, the actual costs of compliance for smaller, less-funded startups under the AI Act—like my cousin’s new AI-powered concierge service in Marrakech—are often ignored when only looking at mega-deals.