Agreed. The idea is nice and honorable. At the same time, if AI has been proving one thing, it's that quality usually reigns over control and trust (except for some sensitive sectors and applications). Of course it's less capital-intense, so makes sense for a comparably little EU startup to focus on that niche. Likely won't spin the top line needle much, though, for the reasons stated.

Ha, keep putting your prompts and workflows into cloud models. They are not okay with being a platform, they intend to cannibalize all businesses. Quality doesn't always reign over control and trust. Your data and original ideas are your edge and moat.

Alignment tax directly eats to model quality, double digit percents.

EU could help them very much if they would start enforcing the Laws, so that no US Company can process European data, due to the Americans not willing to budge on Cloud Act.

That would also help to reduce our dependency on American Hyperscalers, which is much needed given how untrustworthy the US is right now. (And also hostile towards Europe as their new security strategy lays out)