China Lagging in AI Is a ‘Fairy Tale,’ Mistral CEO Says

Mistral AI Founder Arthur Mensch during a Bloomberg Television interview during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22.

Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

Claims that Chinese technology for artificial intelligence lags the US are a “fairy tale,” Arthur Mensch, the chief executive officer of Mistral, said.

“China is not behind the West,” Mensch said in an interview on Bloomberg Television at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. The capabilities of China’s open-source technology is “probably stressing the CEOs in the US.”