European AI. A playbook to own it. By Mistral

Re:European AI. A playbook to own it. By Mistral by zmmmmm on Sunday April 12, 2026 @06:09PM (#47745095)

Yet the UK did produce Deepmind. Which you can look at both ways since it got gobbled up by Google. But it at least came from the UK.

I assume the article excludes the UK, I feel like UK has much more of a startup and VC scene than Europe does and I wonder if that is part of the issue : if you do want to create a startup, the London is a better place than mainland Europe. So even startups that for whatever reason won't take US funding still land outside Europe.

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Re:European AI. A playbook to own it. By Mistral by re-thc on Sunday April 12, 2026 @09:33PM (#47746511)

> Yet the UK did produce Deepmind

That was a long time ago. That UK is not the UK of today.

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Re:European AI. A playbook to own it. By Mistral by yobbo on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:56AM (#47752943)

Deepmind was not a viable business at the time Google acquired it. Today, it is probably even less viable. It functions as R&D-lab for Google which has its own products and datacenters.

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