It's funny they don't have Hugging Face as their Partner. Literally, the biggest face of Open LLMs sitting right in Europe, but somehow it's not a partner.

Hugging Face is an American start-up, by French people. It resides in Brooklyn, New York. Saying they sit right in Europe is dishonest.

Although, as a Dutch person, I'd like to point out Brooklyn technically is Dutch. ;)

What would you expect HF to provide? Are they in possession of larger supercomputers than the research institutions involved?

When you are the front runner, you don't associate with the also-ran and the wannabes. They will drag you down, and drown you in their endless discussion and alignment meetings.