> would benefit from the talent pool of all EU

I get what you are saying, but one of the core benefits of the EU is the freedom of movement and residence so I don't think not having a remote work policy is disqualifying them from being an EU AI company.

I agree with the OP that it sort of is. Moving around in the EU is a lot more difficult than moving around the US, so a lot of great talent just doesn't want to.

I've worked a bit in Poland and UK (before Brexit) and all i had to do was to take a plane and fly to the target city. I do not remember having any particular difficulties, if anything finding a place to live was the hardest thing but that is an issue with moving in general (including within the country), not moving across EU.

I'm not into traveling but i'm pretty sure i can grab a plane/train/bus/whatever and go any EU city i feel like.

Living in a place is quite a bit different to travelling there.

Is it? I get that there's housing crises and cost of living is expensive in the tech hubs, but if you live in one country and want to work in the other you just... go there, sign in with the local county that you live there now, and done.

Or am I missing something?

For one thing, language…

But they do, because plenty of people are willing to move, especially if the compensation is good.

Caveat, my point of view is limited/blinkered, I've worked with a lot of expats / european migrants but I do think they're the more adventurous types who don't want to settle down somewhere yet. Happy to live in an apartment for a few years and take in the culture type of people.

So by that logic: Google is not an US AI company, since they have the same rules, requiring ppl to come into offices?

There is enough talent willing to work there as there is no competition for them

And have half the workers take 4 hour work days with 60 days of PTO while workers in the US work 10 hour days with no vacations? Maybe there's a reason EU is so far behind and the only way for Mistral to compete is to change that.

It’s not like median (not mean) employee productivity at FAANGs and other major tech companies was ever particularly high. They always spent massive amounts of money hiring large amounts of people most of whom never provided that much direct value (due to structural/organizational reasons).

Same with AI. The business model is: spend massive amounts of money -> ??? -> success. Besides a handful of exceptions growing EU tech rarely were able to obtain enough funding without moving to the US.

Any source for those numbers, pretty please? Thanks.

> Maybe there's a reason EU is so far behind

I think we should use AI to fix this. Wait...