Europe has no frontier AI lab, and resources keep flowing to those who failed before
JJitsev · x · 2026-09-28
Ethan Mollick notes that, setting aside the reasons, it is shocking that Europe has no frontier AI lab — not even a near-frontier one or an effort likely to build one. Researcher JJitsev replies that resources have been and still are rerouted to organizations and people who have repeatedly shown they lack the capability, with no consequences from past failures.
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