Architecture comparison
AI/LLM
Trains the Claude family across Google Cloud TPUs and AWS Trainium (both partners/investors). Pioneered the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool/data connectivity around its models.
AI/LLM
European lab releasing strong open-weight models (Mistral/Mixtral) alongside commercial ones; serves via its own La Plateforme and partner clouds (Azure, GCP). Le Chat is the consumer surface. Data-sovereignty positioning.