> European models are so far behind because they don't resort to these tactics on a massive scale. Basically every other country is entirely dependent on 2 countries for frontier AI.

You may or may not be factually correct in your other points, but you're really proving the GP's point here regarding American exceptionalism.

Are there other countries releasing frontier level models? Mistral is the only relevant player I can think of that comes from Europe, did I miss one?