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France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by ArtTimeInvestor »

It is a step into the right direction.

Over time, more and more work is going to be done by AI though. At some point, it will be unthinkably slow and expensive to let humans work on anything.

To do *that* locally, you need GPUs and LLMs.

How will Europe solve these two?

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

ArtTimeInvestor wrote: post #3

It is a step into the right direction. Over time, more and more work is going to be done by AI though. At some point, it will be unthinkably slow and expensive to let humans work on anything. To do *that* locally, you need GPUs and LLMs. How will Europe solve these two?

No-one needs LLMs.

AI has no value.

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by m_mueller »

ArtTimeInvestor wrote: post #3

It is a step into the right direction. Over time, more and more work is going to be done by AI though. At some point, it will be unthinkably slow and expensive to let humans work on anything. To do *that* locally, you need GPUs and LLMs. How will Europe solve these two?

I think it depends on how strong the compression advancements are going to be, such that much can be done locally in the future. I'd be interested in experiences of others here in using Gemma4, which is at the forefront of "intelligence per gigabyte" atm. (according to benches).

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by 7bit »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #4
ArtTimeInvestor wrote: post #3

It is a step into the right direction. Over time, more and more work is going to be done by AI though. At some point, it will be unthinkably slow and expensive to let humans work on anything. To do *that* locally, you need GPUs and LLMs. How will Europe solve these two?

No-one needs LLMs. AI has no value.

The chariot was superior! Who needs them darn cars

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by Joeri »

ArtTimeInvestor wrote: post #3

It is a step into the right direction. Over time, more and more work is going to be done by AI though. At some point, it will be unthinkably slow and expensive to let humans work on anything. To do *that* locally, you need GPUs and LLMs. How will Europe solve these two?

The EU chips act is subsidizing new fab construction in Europe.

Meanwhile the french Mistral is partnering with Nvidia to build an AI data center near Paris on which their LLMs will run.

But I agree this is not enough to make the EU a contender in the race with the US and China. The EU still has not seriously considered decoupling from American big tech.

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