"Reaching the frontier is alchemic, not industrial or scientific": Europe's AI gap debate
tensorqt · x · 2026-11-14
The thread stems from @hubertlepicki's claim that the gen-AI revolution was built by corporations like Google, Nvidia and OpenAI, not institutes—what Europe lacks is an environment where such companies can be created. @tensorqt adds that the fix is cheap: leaders should delegate decisions away from credential-reliant academics toward people who understand that reaching the frontier is neither an industrial nor a scientific effort, but an alchemic one.
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