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1. It's a nice start, but the EU has to scale to Manhattan Project levels in order to properly compete with the US and China.

2. A credible scale effort for EU own silicon for AI Compute, wouldn't hurt either.

3. And this can only be achieved by vertical integration to combat fragmentation.

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Good to distinguish between publicly funded research models (like this one) and commercial ones (like Mistral in France). What are the chinese and usa public research models like?

I propose an European AI-only "NASA" style agency that would have a frontier LLM-"Apollo Program" goal. It would subcontract the several blocks it needs across EU member states.

Would you prefer European AI sovereignty with 15% overhead costs from geographic distribution, or 100% dependence on Nvidia/OpenAI with zero European industrial base?

Allow me to elaborate,

EuroAI: Europe’s Moonshot to AI Sovereignty

https://open.substack.com/pub/ifiwaspolitical/p/euroai-europ...

> It's a nice start, but the EU has to scale to Manhattan Project levels in order to properly compete with the US and China.

Yep, the US-government sponsored, open-weight LLM is miles ahead of EuroLLM

You mean Meta’s Llama?

The Germans do have some neurpmorphic hardware. It might be smarter to invest in that to avoid having to build a lot of new power stations.

They are not "competing" with US and China since this is not a business venture.

2. New state-funded joint venture: EuroNV, pronounced euro-envy.

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