It's understandable to see how Mistral AI's massive funding round, with all that due diligence and institutional backing, could be interpreted as a strong signal for the AI Act's viability.
However, to call it a major driver or critical empirical evidence for the entire Act's effectiveness might be pushing it a bit far.
One company's financial success, even a big one, is still just a single data point in a much larger, more complex regulatory landscape.
It's like saying because one specific server update went smoothly last week, every future software deployment will be issue-free.