As someone who sits on the board of two of Europe’s hottest startups, French large-language model (LLM) builder Mistral and Germany’s image generation startup Black Forest Labs, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) general partner Anjney Midha has a good idea of what’s preoccupying some of the region’s brightest AI entrepreneurs.
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