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That's unfair to Europe. A bunch of AI work is done in London (Deepmind is based here for a start)

That's ok. How could they know that there are companies like Aleph Alpha, Helsing or the famous DeepL. European companies are not that vocal, but that doesn't mean they aren't making progress in the field.

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Thats not the point.

Deepmind is not an UK company, its google aka US.

Mistral is a real EU based company.

Using US VC dollars. Where their desks are isn’t really important.

Currency is interchangeable. Location might not be.

Increasingly where the desks and servers are is critical.

The cloud act and the current US administration doing things like sanctioning the ICC demonstrate why the locations of those desks is important.

That's such a silly argument. X, OpenAI and others have large Saudi investments. In the grant scheme of things the US is largely indebted to China and Japan.

An EU Company pays taxes in EU, has a EU mindset (worker laws etc.), focuses more on EU than other countries.

And an EU company can't be forced by the US Gov to hand over data.

London is not part of Europe anymore since Brexit /s

Is it so hard for people to understand that Europe is a continent, EU is a federation of European countries, and the two are not the same?

I think you missed the joke

Europe isn't even a continent and has no real definition (none that would make any sense, anyway), so the whole thing is confusing by design

If Europe isn’t a continent, on what continent are the EU member states sitting on?

Eurasia is the widely accepted answer.

Isn't London on an island, mr. Pedantic?

So I guess Japan isn't Asian then?

While Japan is part of Asia, and Asia is a continent, Japan is also separated from the Asian continent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Japan#Location

What's more interesting is that the comment you are replying to mistakenly asked me instead of asking the parent.

I honestly think it is. The amount of people who thinks Europe and EU are the same thing is really concerning.

And no, it's not only americans. I keep hearing this thing from people living in Europe as well (or better, in the EU). I also very often hear phrases like "Switzerland is not in Europe" to indicate that the country is not part of the European Union.

Switzerland has such close ties to the EU that I would consider them half in.

Drifted to the Caribbean.

Deepmind doesn't exist anymore.

Google DeepMind does exist.

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