Re:Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral
by smoldesu on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @11:16AM
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> feel free to name all the other European startups that are in the right place at the right time with their own technology.
For starters, there's ARM and STMicroelectronics. Then all the classical household-name businesses like SAAB, Phillips, Nokia, Siemens et. al. However, there's also more recent "SF-style" startups like Spotify, TransferWise and Klarna. Take your pick?
> Where were the European GPU startups back in the 1990s, let alone today?
For starters, there's ARM and STMicroelectronics. Then all the classical household-name businesses like SAAB, Phillips, Nokia, Siemens et. al. However, there's also more recent "SF-style" startups like Spotify, TransferWise and Klarna. Take your pick?
> Where were the European GPU startups back in the 1990s, let alone today?
Imagination Technologies was a pretty big name for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PowerVR_products