Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'

Typical EU response. Seems Europeans have stumbled to 2nd or 3rd place in the A I race, if even that.

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Unfortunately Europe is already far behind. OpenAI started over a decade ago. How can Europe catch up? Maybe if progress slows down and they have time to at least get into the same position as Chinese models, but they also need to invest in it. But with what money? And why would talented people stay there instead of going to America where they can get a fairer share of their hard earned money?

There’s so much more to say, but it’s a big mess. And European voters and politicians are far too slow and unfocused to change their system drastically. By the time those incentives and problems are fixed it will be too late to be anything but a vassal state.

>>>> In a world where you import all your digital services from the United States, you have no leverage over the United States

It's a bit deeper than that. If AI becomes as ubiquitous as imagined, which it seems it will, it's not just a "digital service". It's a primary utility - like electricity, water or highways. Because without it your productivity will plummet. We aren't there yet - we will be there in a few years.

the problem is not the model, but the infrastructure needed to run the model. so yeah, gpus, cpus, network, etc etc