"Europe has no frontier AI lab" — and one reply blames US immigration policy for China's gain
anpaure · x · 2026-09-26
Ethan Mollick tweets that, setting aside the reasons, it is shocking Europe has not a single frontier AI lab — not even a near-frontier one, nor an effort that could plausibly build one. User anpaure replies with context: before OpenAI and Anthropic, smart Europeans flocked to Google DeepMind; now they go to OpenAI and Anthropic — adding the sharp take that the only reason China has a frontier lab is that US immigration is hard.
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