How Europe is racing to resolve its AI sovereignty woes

While not yet as illustrious as its North American counterparts OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cohere, Europe’s own cohort of generative AI startups is beginning to crystallise. Just yesterday, news broke that Germany’s Aleph Alpha had raised €460mn, in one of the largest funding rounds ever for a European AI company.  The European tech community received news of the investment with some enthusiasm. While much focus has been on how the EU will regulate the tech (and how the UK will or …

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