It is crazy that anything Europe gets so much hate. IMO it is important to build models within the boundaries of smaller nations, using their own language. Research has to continue even if it is outside of US and China.

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transcriptase 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s not that it gets hate so much as it’s akin to watching them make announcements that they’re going to make a European google/facebook/tiktok.

Sure… they can, except at the end of the day it’s a bit late, regulatory burden will make it comparatively useless, and because of that nobody will ever use it. It will be spending a bunch of taxpayer dollars for press releases.

The running joke is that when these “sovereign” EU models launch, they’re going to refuse to answer anything that might involve personal information such as Elon Musk’s birthday.

	▲	Lucasoato 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I kinda agree, the best use of taxpayer money should be in reducing taxes to corporation that would like to compete in the market vs US and China, rather than making governments playing the game (since they very obviously can’t).
	▲	data-ottawa an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That’s on Wikipedia, it’s not PII, it’s also not going to be relevant to any meaningful IRL work. I challenge the assumption you can do meaningful work in this field without blatant disregard for intellectual property. The idea that it’s all down to training size is clearly incorrect, as every expert human learned their craft without nearly the sum total information of the internet. Clearly there are architectural wins to be found. Besides that, why would everyone just be fine with Opus level AI at best, as that’s all the US is willing to export, and I doubt China will share beyond that. Sovereign AI is more important than ever after Friday.