~ unfortunately both Anthropic and OAI already do high end "bespoke" consulting work for business clients, the so-called "Mistral approach" is just a crappier version of that unfortunately.
Mistral / Europe just doesn't want to be in the fight.
I don't really see why Europe would be special in this regard. I would bet on a non-frontier, late-moving american or chinese company taking on this role before a european one.
Just a wet dream of a sleepy old European... How should this work?
In the case where it becomes commodified and american tech companies are making thin margins, and where european companies can then build their own data centers in a financially sustainable way. High margins arent a garuntee with this stuff in constrast to ads.