Assuming one company's big fundraising round is enough to prove the regulatory viability of an entire framework seems like a risky bet.
There's a real downside if we don't look beyond the headlines to see who actually benefits from the AI Act and who gets left behind.
What if a smaller Belgian startup, without Mistral's specific capital allocation strategy, simply can't meet the compliance burden and has to exit the market?
For example, my neighbour's small bakery still struggles with HACCP regulations, and that's for bread, not complex AI.