Europe’s AI scene is “barely even playing,” says one blunt industry rant
MarvinTBaumann · x · 2026-07-23
The author jokes that they would mock U.S. AI for getting badly beaten by Chinese open-weight models, except Europe is also far behind and “barely even playing.” They add that Europe still has many strong algorithmic innovations, but the gap in scale is making the region look hopeless.
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