As a European I'm happy to use their product (and pay for it), I just ask one tiny little thing from them: build a better model with lower latency.
That's mighty impossible for the european mindset - people here are not so risk-eager as to through hundreds of billions on infrastructure for something that might return a profit.
2. We prefer anti-AI regulations and not having a stupid Musk indoctrinating half the country
Before or after the bubble pops?
What does chatgpt has over competitors again? Besides a deranged ceo of course
To be fair this example does look a lot like insanity.
There are many more important things to consider. Like literally everything else society sits on top of.
I have a theory about the second part; European consumers have an even more suspicious view of "corporate overlords" if they are domestic/European than if they are American. Not because Americans are more trustworthy, but because they see Europeans as "anonymous masses" and are therefore more "neutral" to the internal struggles in Europe.
Signing up to a service owned by a European "dynastic" family, possibly in a neighbouring country, feels like more of a surrender of autonomy.
I think the idea of a Eurostack is more compelling: standard office productivity tools that aren't beholden to Microsoft, Apple, or Google. That means email, calendar, spreadsheets, word processing, slide decks, video conferencing.
Imagine if every government and corporation in the eurozone stopped paying for Windows licenses and O365 subscriptions.
LibreOffice exists, of course, but it lacks an alternative to Outlook and Teams/Zoom. It would benefit from a benevolent corporate sponsor with deeper pockets than TDF which AFAIK is purely volunteer-driven.
What failed with Mistral?
Which anti-AI regulations are we talking about, and don't these apply to any solution distributed in the European Union, hence also to American ones?
That is quite significant on a continent like Europe, with dozens of different languages.
And I'm not talking about LLMs here but DeepL etc.
The day they ask 1 cent from free users they'll go to the countless alternatives
AI translation is comparable to the telephone or e-mail in how it improves communication.
They’re not going to. You’re rooting so hard for a downfall that won’t happen. They’re going to be an advertising giant.
LLMs certainly have their use and are here to stay but it remains to be seen how they can be commercially successful without constant injections of venture capital.
These days even the French (!) speak English.