can't wrap my head around HOW they did it exactly, and hate to admit this… but French innovation has been truly impressive to say the least
back in 2016, after brexit, everyone was convinced that post-london the capital of european innovation would've been berlin
7 years later, paris is dropping OSS LLMs with torrent links seemingly every day, raising hundreds of millions for fundamental AI research, it's effectively leading social network innovation more than the Bay has been doing for in many years (which is wild), the _only_ aerospace market in europe, it's doubling down on nuclear energy, and just pushing things forward aggressively and boldly
in the meantime germany still thinks the DACH market is enough for venture scale returns, bans nuclear, and thinks that regulation will somehow… save the day?
and italy… oh well, italy has exactly 1 single (albeit extremely impressive) big success story, and the rest is just grifters, or hyperlocal mid stuff
saddened and disappointed w/ my former country, although not surprised, while impressed & def surprised w/ france. kudos to them
can't wrap my head around HOW they did it exactly, and hate to admit this… but French innovation has been truly impressive to say the least back in 2016, after brexit, everyone was convinced that post-london the capital of european innovation would've been berlin 7 years later, paris is dropping OSS LLMs with torrent links seemingly every day, raising hundreds of millions for fundamental AI research, it's effectively leading social network innovation more than the Bay has been doing for in many years (which is wild), the _only_ aerospace market in europe, it's doubling down on nuclear energy, and just pushing things forward aggressively and boldly in the meantime germany still thinks the DACH market is enough for venture scale returns, bans nuclear, and thinks that regulation will somehow… save the day? and italy… oh well, italy has exactly 1 single (albeit extremely impressive) big success story, and the rest is just grifters, or hyperlocal mid stuff saddened and disappointed w/ my former country, although not surprised, while impressed & def surprised w/ france. kudos to them
France is now:
* one of the leading geographies for AI development
* making the most reliable commercial airplanes in the world
* gearing up for war
Are we going to have to update our stereotypes/jokes now? What’s next? No cheese and wine? 40 hour work weeks?
* one of the leading geographies for AI development
* making the most reliable commercial airplanes in the world
* gearing up for war
Are we going to have to update our stereotypes/jokes now? What’s next? No cheese and wine? 40 hour work weeks?
Lee Edwards • Tweet
Here’s the problem with leading the world in regulation: you can only regulate what is built, and the E.U. doesn’t build anything pertinent to technology.
It’s easy enough to imagine this tale being told in a few year’s time:
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It’s easy enough to imagine this tale being told in a few year’s time:
The erstwhile center of civilization, long-since surpassed by the United States, leverages the fundamental nature of technolog... See more
Ben Thompson • Meta Blocks News in Canada, LK-99, YouTube and TV Advertisers
If you’re in the US, this only reinforces what you think of Europe: just another example of why no dominant tech company has ever grown out of there! Yes, we in Europe can be forced to defend ourselves in a criminal defamation case for publicly discussing questions like “What is innovation?” and “Couldn’t we do better than the existing taxi industr
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