Mistral AI's 21 billion euro valuation can't truly inform a serious debate on the AI Act's regulatory viability; it's a single data point, not a whole picture.
Our attention is finite, and we can't let one company's success obscure the actual legal complexities.
If Mistral's capital allocation mostly goes to compute and talent, with regulatory costs being a tiny fraction, it shows the AI Act isn't their main driver.
We have to be prudent with what we consider evidence, especially when resources are scarce.