Innovative Greeks Talks with Marco Veremis: ep.33 - Arthur Mensch

Our partner and co-Chair of SEV’s Innovation Committee, Marco Veremis hosts the Innovative Greeks, who excel by achieving increasingly higher goals. His guests unfold their stories and share with us their exciting journey, experiences gathered along the way, but also their recipe for success.

In this episode, Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI, discusses why Europe needs its own AI champions and models shaped by European values, not just imported defaults from the US or China. He explains how model behavior is ultimately determined by human choices—data, training methods, and preference-setting—and why Mistral is betting on open-weight, more decentralized AI as a counterbalance to winner-take-all platforms.

The conversation also dives into the reality behind the AI hype: companies need tools, deployment support, and continuous iteration to reach measurable business value, while governments and educators must accelerate adoption, reskilling, and creativity-focused learning as AI reshapes the labor market.

Watch the video here: