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Time of India
5 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch warns of AI ‘deskilling' people: ‘It's a risk that….'
Image for representative purpose Mistral AI CEO and former Google DeepMind researcher Arthur Mensch recently said that the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on white-collared jobs is an 'overstatement'. In an interview with The Times of London at the VivaTech conference in Paris, Mensch dismissed the idea that AI will result in huge job cuts. Instead, he sees AI 'deskilling' people as one of the biggest threats to the job market . Mensch said that as people rely more on AI to search and summarize information, they may stop thinking critically themselves. "It's a risk that you can avoid, if you think of it from a design perspective, if you make sure that you have the right human input, that you keep the human active," Mensch said at the Paris conference earlier this month. "You want people to continue learning," he continued. "Being able to synthesize information and criticize information is a core component to learning." Mistral AI CEO responds to Anthropic CEO's remark on losing over half of entry-level jobs to AI During the interview, Mensch also responded to recent warnings of losing jobs to AI including the one by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei . Dario said that AI may replace half of entry-level white-collar workers in the next five years. "We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming," Amodei told Axios in an interview published last month. The 42-year-old CEO emphasized that most people remain unaware of the impending transformation, calling it a reality that "sounds crazy, and people just don't believe it." Mensch said "I think it's very much of an overstatement," adding that he believed Amodei liked to "spread fear" as a marketing strategy. Instead of job cuts, Mensch believes AI will reshape office work, with more emphasis on human interaction. 'I do expect that we'll have more relational tasks because that's not something you can easily replace,' he said. 6 Awesome New Features Coming in Android 16! AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
Business Insider
7 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Mistral AI CEO says AI's biggest threat is people getting lazy
As tech leaders continue to debate the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the job market, one CEO says the technology's biggest risk may be "deskilling." In an interview with The Times of London, Arthur Mensch, the CEO of the Paris-based firm Mistral AI, dismissed the idea that AI would lead to huge cuts to white-collar jobs, saying the bigger risk was that people may become progressively lazier as they increasingly rely on the tech to search for information. Speaking to the outlet at the VivaTech conference in Paris earlier this month, Mensch, who cofounded the open-source large language model developer alongside Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix in April 2023, said that a key way to avoid this would be to ensure humans remained actively involved in reviewing and critiquing AI output. "It's a risk that you can avoid, if you think of it from a design perspective, if you make sure that you have the right human input, that you keep the human active," he said, adding that he believed it was important humans did not take AI output as the "truth." "You want people to continue learning," he continued. "Being able to synthesize information and criticize information is a core component to learning." Mensch, a former Google DeepMind researcher, also responded to recent warnings that AI poses a threat to white-collar jobs, including from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who recently said that AI could replace half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. "I think it's very much of an overstatement," Mensch said, adding that he believed Amodei liked to "spread fear" about AI as a marketing tactic. Instead, Mensch said he thought AI would change white-collar jobs. "I do expect that we'll have more relational tasks because that's not something you can easily replace," he said.
Business Insider
10-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Mistral's CEO says reaching AGI will be 'a marketing move.' He uses this performance metric instead.
Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is the AI industry's holy grail — but the CEO of a major AI startup has dismissed it as a "marketing move." AGI is broadly used to describe a system that could perform any task that a human can. Speaking during a fireside chat at London Tech Week on Tuesday, Arthur Mensch, CEO of French startup Mistral, said that AGI is "not super well defined." "It's a moving target by definition," Mensch said. "We move from AI to AGI at some point, but that's a marketing move." OpenAI's Sam Altman has said that AGI could come as soon as this year, while Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis predicts it'll arrive by 2030. The Mistral CEO, known for his AGI scepticism, said that progress should instead be measured by looking at "the length of the agent execution," which means how long an AI agent can perform tasks before it runs into problems. "The number of tasks that you can do within an enterprise, or as a user using generative AI systems, is definitely growing, and it's going to continue to grow," he said. Mensch cofounded Mistral in 2023 with former DeepMind and Meta researchers. It has quickly become one of Europe's most prominent AI companies, often seen as the continent's answer to OpenAI. The startup focuses on open-source AI models and has been scooping up talent from rival Meta, Business Insider previously reported.
CNBC
10-06-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Microsoft-backed AI lab Mistral is launching its first reasoning model in challenge to OpenAI
French artificial intelligence firm Mistral is on Tuesday launching its first reasoning model to compete with rival options from the likes of OpenAI and China's DeepSeek. The startup, which is backed by U.S. tech giant Microsoft, on Tuesday said that it plans to release its own reasoning model Magistral, which is "competitive with all the others," including OpenAI's o1 and Chinese AI firm DeepSeek's R1, according to CEO Arthur Mensch. Reasoning models are systems that can execute more complicated tasks through a step-by-step logical thought process. Mistral's new model "is great at mathematics [and] great at coding," Mensch told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal onstage during a fireside chat at London Tech Week. The Mistral boss said that the unique selling point of the company's upcoming Magistral reasoning model is that it'll be able to reason with European languages. "Historically, we've seen U.S. models reason in English and Chinese models reason in Chinese," Mensch said. At the start of this year, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released a reasoning model called R1 that shocked the AI community — and global markets — promising competitive performance with OpenAI's rival o1 model at a lower cost.
The Hindu
08-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
French startup Mistral launches chatbot for companies, triples revenue in 100 days
Mistral AI on Wednesday launched its Le Chat chatbot for corporate use, and its CEO said the French startup has tripled its revenue in the last 100 days, with demand coming particularly from outside the United States. Paris-based Mistral AI, founded two years ago, launched the open source version of its Le Chat assistant in February. The enterprise version now connects with content management systems such as Microsoft's SharePoint and Google Drive. "In the last 100 days we have tripled our business, in particular in Europe and outside of the U.S.," CEO Arthur Mensch told journalists. "We've been... growing in the U.S. quite fast as well," Mensch said. Mistral, which is valued at $6 billion, does not publicly disclose its revenue, but was reported by one trade publication to have revenue of $30 million last year. Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump completed 100 days in office in his second term, which has been marked by a strained relationship with Europe due to his trade policies and controversial diplomatic actions. Mistral is operating its own compute capabilities and reducing its dependency on cloud providers, allowing the company to offer customers a service that does not depend on the U.S. companies, Mensch said. A company can also deploy Le Chat on its own cloud infrastructure without needing Mistral to manage its data.
