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Re:ASML, Mistral AI enter strategic partnership by lilwobbles on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:52AM (#45181273)
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.
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Re:ASML, Mistral AI enter strategic partnership by wqaatwt on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @09:16AM (#45181529)
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.

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Re:ASML, Mistral AI enter strategic partnership by guilamu on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:57AM (#45181328)
Any source for those numbers, pretty please? Thanks.
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Re:ASML, Mistral AI enter strategic partnership by mystifyingpoi on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @09:05AM (#45181411)
> Maybe there's a reason EU is so far behind

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

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