EU AI: the fables we told ourselves (written by famous French AI researcher) (opens in new tab)

The most powerful models Europe lost access to this year happen to be called the Fable series. It is the kind of coincidence you cannot improve on, because the suspension did not create a European vulnerability so much as expose a fable Europe had been telling itself for the better part of the post-chatGPT boom: that it did not need to build the substrate of artificial intelligence, only to use it well. Own the application layer, the story went, and let others burn the capital underneath. Whe...