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Why not just put the money into Mistral? Mistral seems to be pretty cash-strapped and they're just about the only EU entity doing anything interesting with LLMs, and they've released open models before. Commissioning a bunch of models from them would be a better use of money than spreading it among a bunch of randos.
Because they are not, as Silicon Valley/American thinking would have it, trying to "win" some AI Arms Race measured in stock market valuations.
This is so European governments & their civil service, educational institutions, the EU itself has an AI untainted by either American or Chinese values, and also independent of either of them.
But Mistral could do all that, with a far lower chance of pissing away the money...