The promise of sovereign AI is that a country can keep its models, data, and compute power at home. But there’s one critical component that has to come from outside: the chips.
“Today, there is no equivalent in Europe,” said Timothée Lacroix, cofounder and chief technology officer of French AI company Mistral AI, referring to the GPUs, CPUs, TPUs, and other types of advanced chips that are for the most part made by U.S. companies.
