Chinese AI Models Gain Foothold in Europe Despite Brussels’ Trepidation

Chinese AI models gain foothold in Europe despite Brussels’ trepidation

Chinese models will be ‘significant’ for European firms, as their ‘performance and efficiency are increasingly competitive’, analyst says.

Our AI, Your Problem

The debate over whether European firms should use a Chinese state-directed model or one built by a private US firm threatens to distract from Europe’s most pressing problem, which is that it has no seat at either table. To preserve its own sovereignty, the continent must create a third option for itself.

Beyond Harari’s either-or: Europe’s third way on AI

There is one thing Europe imports even more regularly than semiconductors: prophecies of its own irrelevance. The latest comes from Yuval Noah Harari. To the core: In an interview with Nicola Abé published by Der Spiegel on August 9 — unlikely to circulate in Italian anytime soon, and therefore worth quoting in its key passages — the historian presents Europe with an either-or choice. “Become a submissive vassal of the United States” or become …