{"id":994264,"date":"2026-02-23T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994264"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:11:49","slug":"mistral-sees-ai-as-utility-emphasis-more-on-efficiency-founder-arthur-mensch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/23\/mistral-sees-ai-as-utility-emphasis-more-on-efficiency-founder-arthur-mensch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistral sees AI as utility, emphasis more on efficiency: Founder Arthur Mensch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI is becoming an &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; play and should therefore be treated as a utility, with the focus on efficiency and cost effectiveness, said Arthur Mensch, founder of European AI giant Mistral AI, in an interview with Surabhi Agarwal. <\/p>\n<p>The Paris-headquartered firm raised over $2 billion in Series C funding in September 2025, led by chip equipment maker ASML, taking its valuation to $14 billion and making it the most valuable European AI company. Mensch, 33, said the company is looking to partner with sovereign cloud providers in India. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is becoming an &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; play and should therefore be treated as a utility, with the focus on efficiency and cost effectiveness, said Arthur Mensch, founder of European AI giant Mistral AI, in an interview with Surabhi Agarwal. The Paris-headquartered firm raised over $2 billion in Series C funding in September 2025, led by chip equipment maker ASML, taking its valuation to $14 billion and making it the most valuable European AI company. Mensch, 33, said the company is looking to partner with sovereign cloud providers in India. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}