It has been too European Union

The European Commission presented This Wednesday a new action plan called “Continent AI”. The objective is to try to promote development and innovation in artificial intelligence in the European Union, something that the Law of AI precisely complicated. It is just one of the things they want to change for a simple reason: they have seen the wolf’s ears.

A law of simplified AI. He Artificial Intelligence Regulationalso known as AI law, was criticized for being especially complex and restrictive. The European Commission has revealed that one of the objectives of the Action Plan will be to simplify that regulation. In addition, an assistance service will be launched to help companies meet it.

AI factories. One of the points of that plan is to reinforce European infrastructure. In February There was already talk of the intention of creating Gigafactories of AI, and here the Investai initiative “will mobilize an investment of 20,000 million euros” with the idea of ​​”trulying the capacity of EU data centers in the next five to seven years.”

More adoption. According to data from the European Commission, “only 13.5 % of EU companies” have incorporated AI technologies. Other of the key elements of the Action Plan is the creation of “high quality” data laboratories to take advantage to “expand AI solutions.” There will also be aid for the hiring of international talent and scholarships on Ia.

Europe is staying out. The role of the EU in the field of artificial intelligence is very discreet. There are some remarkable startups (Freepik, Mistral), But the current strategy continues to prioritize regulation on innovation. The simplification of the AI ​​law can help European entrepreneurs be encouraged to work on their projects, and perhaps this also encourages an investment that of course in the US is extraordinary, as demonstrated by the recent openai case and SoftBank.

And the US is no longer such an ally. The Recent tariffs of the Trump administration – and the European response– They have also made it clear that the United States has adopted a strongly protectionist position and in which its traditional allies are no longer so. That makes the European Union need to activate measures to try not to lose a train that has never taken at all.

A lot of noise, few nuts. The press release shows good intentions and reasonable objectives, but does so with a tone and language too political. All are future and diffuse plans, and there are no specific and real measures that show any advance in this issue. For example, we do not know how or when the regulation will be simplified specifically. Nor do we know where those “AI factories” or when they will be ready to operate or what type of computing capacity will house will be created.

We need European startups, not a European AI. Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, already highlighted it in the interview that granted us In Xataka. What the European Union needs is not a model as Openeurollm, but “to finance local startups and that governments will try to encourage them by eliminating for example the blockages, creating companies and giving greater visibility.”

And we also need to excite ourselves. Joaquín Cuenca, Freepik CEO and also He told us about this issuehighlighted how the EU needs to be “more optimistic and see how much we can get. All the legislation that has been created avoids the exciting part.” It is another palpable reality: in the EU we need exciting projects, and those will not come from the EU, but of European startups and companies.

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