The paradox that 150,000 million euros will try to solve

Europe has announced An investment of 150,000 million euros in AI for the next five years, in an attempt not to be left behind the United States and China. The plan, the EU AI Champions Initiativeit is fixed to five years and is behind twenty investors.

The announcement comes In the middle of AI in Pariswhere European leaders are showing a radical change in their speech on the regulation of the sector.

The unexpected turn. The EU, pioneer to regulate the AI ​​with its Law of AI almost a year agonow it seems to regret having been too restrictive. President Macron has gone from Adalid of the regulation to defender of a more competitive European AI, criticizing the “punitive” norms that could stop the development of the sector.

• The advance of Mistralmacron countryman, it can be a good reason for this change of posture.
• France will invest additional 109,000 million euros.

Between the lines. The European paradox in AI is quite evident:

• According to EU startupsnine of the ten most used open source AI models are European …
• … But no European company is among the giants of the sector, almost monopolized by the United States.

Millionaire investment seeks to monetize that talent before it is late. That is, this is a macroinversion that does not only prolong development, but also monetize the existing one, build commercial and profitable products for the models already launched.

The context. The pressure increases on several fronts:

• China has surprised the world and punch on the table with Deepseekdemonstrating that you can compete with less resources, and very well.
• The great American technology have approached the horizon of the AGI to one or two years seen.
• European regulation It could be born obsolete In a world that changes a lot from one quarter to another.

Deepen. The European Plan represents a paradigm shift: from leader in regulation to actor that seeks not to be left behind. The question is if 150,000 million and a spin in the speech will be enough to compete in a race where others have been advantage for years.

And there is another risk: that Europe, in its hurry to recover lost time, ends up abandoning the ethical principles that have characterized it so far, without achieving the objective of creating technological giants capable of competing with the United States and China. That is: lose your identity in bucket.

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