Spotify's Daniel Ek Tells Jensen Huang Europe Is Too Slow on AI, Bets on Open Models
kimmonismus · x · 2026-10-15
In a Stockholm conversation with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Spotify founder Daniel Ek argued Europe isn't adopting AI fast enough and should focus on open-source models. He shared that AI now completes tasks that took Spotify engineers hours — "soon it will be weeks" — a notable endorsement of AI-driven internal workflows from one of Europe's biggest tech founders.
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