But you have to have more data than used for pretraining for the added knowledge to take precedent over pretraining, no? If that would be the case, you practically contradict the knowledge in the base model.

I mean ... LLMs are sort of an extreme and living proof of linguistic determinism. Their behaviors are dictated almost entirely by disorganized language data, primarily English and Chinese. So you can't just add a language as native primary language in a quick post training, I think. There's no way that it would work.

Funnily ASML owes its current success partly to US funded research (straight from Wikipedia):

> Two years later, it joined a consortium, which included Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamental research conducted by the US Department of Energy. Because the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) it operates under is funded by the US government, licensing must be approved by Congress.[12]

Why are you acting childish and petty? I said EU hasn't got AI compute manufacturing(aka no equivalent IP to Nvidia and AMD and no equivalent to TSMC or Samsung fabs), not that it doesn't have lithography machines manufacturing.

Surely you understand that while you can have the latter, you can also lack the former.

Most important machine ... built on US IP, subject to US export restrictions, used to manufacture high value US IP, in factories outside the EU, so profits of those chips goes to US. A point I have addressed over two times already.

Also ASML even threatened to leave the NL if the Dutch government doesn't do what they want on taxes and labor policies. So having only a single card to play that EU can loose at any time, it's not putting EU tech sovereignty argument in a good light.

The "wahabout ASML" that keeps being spammed by people here, isn't proof of EU compute and AI sovereignty. It's the exception which is why it's the only thing people can mention on EU tech and they DDoS you with it as if that changes anything.

Are people here that petty that they can't stay on topic and argue in good faith and instead need to hijack your argument to go on offtopic whataboutism for a cheap gotcha spamming "whatabout ASML" on unrelated arguments?

The US is a single country. Russia is not on the US' doorstep. The US has its own oil. The US prints the world reserve currency.

Different scale for those problems. Way different scale. US is monetary rich, oil rich, energy rich, manufacturing rich, and doesn't suffer from russian aggression at its borders. US is so bored from how rich and problem free it is compared to Europe, that it can afford to keep starting foreign wars as if nothing ever happens.

Also back on the topic, the US managed to bring TSMC to open a cutting edge fab in the US and has already been operational for a while. Which already puts it way ahead of the EU on this front as well.

The thing is, US is much better on actually making things happen when push comes to shove. It saw it's deficient and vulnerable on domestic semiconductor manufacturing, it then made it happen with TSMC. It's doing the same with domestic ship building with Korean partners.

US might be slow moving, but somehow EU is even way slower at realizing and addressing its vulnerabilities, only waking up when it's far too late, causing it to pay a much more painful price for sleeping at the wheel (Russian invaded Ukraine in 2014 BTW, not in 2022, and they were building another gas pipeline with them), and when this type of own-goaling keeps repeating enough times you see the correlation with EU's decline as their economic rivals keep biting more and more market share from their industries as they sleep on critical changes and developments.