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Hear ye, hear ye ๐ฅ๐
So happy and proud to announce that we won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Integration 2020 for our project โHome Is Where the Herz Isโ
europeanconstitution.eu/2020โฆ
Check it out โบ๏ธโค๏ธ
metropole.at/herz
So proud of our team at @metropole_vie ๐คฉ
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Every European VC, and any VC with European portfolio companies, and every European company building with AI, should be pushing Europe to face hard trade-offs and build leverage - NOW. Drastic action must follow today.
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Benjamin Wolf ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Jun 11
Most of Europe has not yet absorbed what AI is about to do to us. The few who have are not saying it loudly enough.
We wrote Europe 2031: a five-year scenario of the continent's slide into irrelevance, how AI is driving it, and what can still be done to change course.
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Treat yourself to the two hour podcast this Sunday if you haven't. You won't regret it.
Huge congrats to the team that produced this. By far the most effective effort to communicate the urgency of now on European AI strategy I have come across.
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This is a must-read for ๐ช๐บand especially ๐ฉ๐ชdecision-makers.
The single most effective policy measure for ensuring compute build-out is drastically shortening time for getting data centers powered up. Energy costs & tax incentives matter less than time to power.
New: America canโt build the worldโs AI infrastructure alone. We need the scale only our allies can provide, but they are currently missing out on the biggest industrial mobilization since World War II.
@SamWinterLevy, @TawilTeddy, and I go deep into the economics of the AI infrastructure boom and propose a way forward for democracies to shape the trajectory of, and reap the benefits from, transformative AI.
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Benjamin Wolf ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Jun 13
Le carnet de croquis de Turner
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Benjamin Wolf ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Jun 10
Why did private firms, not state-owned enterprises (SOEs), come to dominate Chinaโs EV sector?
My new @ChinaJournal article (co-authored with Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex) challenge the "top-down industrial policy" narrative.
The real engine? Strategic alliances between local governments and private capital. ๐งต
Based on 3 years of fieldwork, 60 interviews (with officials, entrepreneurs, and engineers), and rich first-hand accounts, we show how strict central regulations inadvertently drove local states to bet big on private EV players.
Here is the story: (1/15)
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This is what I've been saying for years - there is much more cleantech manufacturing outside China, especially in Europe, Japan, Korea, than the narrative of China's "dominance" suggests.
Accelerating the EUโs electrification with domestic clean power and manufacturing of clean tech is a path towards long-term energy security.
Fortunately, Europe's clean tech manufacturing base is stronger than you might think ๐ช๐บ ๐ค
Our chart below shows the numbers ๐
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Prime Minister Mark Carney said the US export ban blocking all foreign access to Anthropic PBCโs latest artificial intelligence models underscores the risk of depending on just a handful of powerful AI tools. bloomberg.com/news/articles/โฆ
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Benjamin Wolf ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Jun 13
This is dangerous for Europe.
We should act super fast & together.
Our best chance is all hands on board to accelerate @MistralAI, the only European company that has models on nearly the same level than the US and Chinese leaders.
All European national sovereign funds should immediately put 1B EUR each into Mistral and make sure the company always stays European (not just French).
And as soon as reasonably possible, we should start using those models day to day for work, first in governments and state companies, then elsewhere.
The only way to win is to stay independent and own the tech ourselves.
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-mytโฆ
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Benjamin Wolf ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Make no mistake: post-Mythos, the United States has a licensing regime for AI. Itโs just informal, with no consistent rules or firm boundaries on state power or public transparency. Cobalt mining in the Congo is vastly more institutionalized than frontier AI licensing in the US.
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Good to remember that Europe once was behind with commercial airplanes.
The Boeing CEO said "Theyโll build a dozen or so and then go out of business"
But Europe didn't give up, went to work, and now dominates the industry. Europe working united on AI will allow for a comeback!
Eventually Airbus overtook Boeing.
Won't be different with AI.
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French exail has launched a navigation box which doesn't rely on satellites.
Satellite systems can get jammed in war. This plug and play system uses proven Fiber Optic Gyro technology to determine location with high accuracy.
This builds European sovereignty ๐ช๐บ
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France ๐ซ๐ท spent on the order of 1% of GDP per year to ensure nuclear sovereignty in the 1950s and 60s.
Spending that, at EU level, over 10 years would get us to a similar level of AI sovereignty in Europe ๐ช๐บ
Itโs so weirdly defeatist that we pretend thatโs not feasible.
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Catching up in compute, in chips, and in frontier and open source models is eminently doable.
We see how fast new approaches or teams catch up with the frontier given the opportunity.
It is incredibly myopic to pretend Europe can't do it.
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But it does need serious resources and commitment, multiples of what's happening right now.
We're moving, but still in increments, not in leaps and bounds.
That's what should happen now, not hand-wringing.
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