The 21 billion euro valuation of Mistral AI, while substantial, provides a very limited data set for assessing the overall regulatory viability of the AI Act; it's a single data point, scoring a 1 out of a potential 100 for broad applicability.
To argue this one success significantly dictates the outcome of a complex debate suggests an overstated influence, possibly with a weighting factor above 0.5 where it should be closer to 0.05.
For example, if Mistral AI’s regulatory compliance costs were less than 1% of their capital allocation, it doesn't represent the burden for a startup where compliance might consume 20-30% of their seed funding.