Europe has no frontier AI lab, and none likely to build one, researcher notes
jeremyakahn · x · 2026-09-26
In a discussion with Ethan Mollick, the author calls it shocking that Europe lacks a single frontier—or even near-frontier—AI lab, with no obvious effort capable of building one.
He lists emerging European labs betting on alternative architectures that may or may not reach the frontier: Ineffable (RL), AMI Labs (JEPA), Black Forest Labs (diffusion/world models), Aire (science automation), and Recursive Superintelligence. Overall assessment is pessimistic about Europe's frontier prospects.
Related event: Economist Mollick's claim that Europe has no frontier AI lab sparks debate(6 posts)→
More from Companies & People
- Mark Says George Hotz Was Prescient About Nvidia's Situation — mark_k · 2026-11-11
- A 4,000-Word Visual Guide to Graph Theory, From City Traffic to Shortest Paths — TivadarDanka · 2026-11-11
- NVIDIA Research Korea is hiring agentic AI research scientists in Seoul — ben_j_todd · 2026-11-11
- Indie-hacking drama: should builders monetize their audience openly? — eptwts · 2026-11-11
- DeepMind's Petar Veličković on finishing a book as LLMs arrived — PetarV_93 · 2026-11-11
- Anthropic Says SpaceX Contract Won't Be Extended Beyond Mid-Next-Year — tekbog · 2026-11-11