Big companies are surprisingly nimble when it comes to AI.

They typically white label Azure LLM offerings or use Github Copilot Enterprise and sign everyone up wholesale.

Some with competent IT dept wrote their own router and offer multiple models from multiple vendors and present it as "<company name> chat".

Not in EU. There is a sacred process that has to be followed that can take months even to flip a switch.

I work in a big corporation in Europe. Officially we're only allowed to use CoPilot, but a lot of people just have their own subscriptions. Management either turns a blind eye or is actively encouraging investigating other AI solutions. Of course, people need to take care of confidentiality, data protection and all that, but a lot of work is just not affected by those concerns.

Workers' councils...

care to elaborate?

It's the German / European version of unions. For instance when I joined an ex-public company 25 years ago unions were very active in the UK still, but they are even more active in Germany etc.

> fintec startup in Berlin,

> This was mostly due to second line pushing back because of data protection, data privacy and all other regulatory requirement and bureaucratic paperwork

Fintec startup. Fintech. Handling people's money. Handling a lot of extremely sensitive data. Complaining that they have to deal with some "bullshit bureacracy about the things like privacy and data regulations or something".

Really? Really?!