None of those are truly innovative. They are basically reinventing the wheel.

Who cares, as long as they reinvent it with safety screws on it.

Well the point is that Europe is helplessly missing globally competitive innovative shops in important IT sectors. This is a big economical and political problem which is not solved by referring to marginal copycats of existing US services.

As an employee of a European company which is chosen by European and US customers alike _specifically_ for our competence in European market regulation I see opportunity where you see shortage. Of course, we will never join the ranks of public celebrities such as Facebook or Google, but who cares, really. It's very likely you've interacted with our products in one way or another, we've made some revenue with it, and that counts. That the technology is coming from Europe, you'll never know.

Oh really? What about LAION? The group who is developing open ai models?

Well I am hearing of them for the first time. Yeah I could be an ignorant, or they are not as relevant as you make it sound. A quick wiki search mentions they are best known for providing datasets for Stable diffusion and Imagen.

And if this is your counter example, then it proves my point that the Americans far more innovative currently.