European AI independence, the timeline:
2026 - Everyone on X agrees we must build our own AI
2027 - EU AI Sovereignty Taskforce formed
2028 - Feasibility study on a 0.5GW data center in Latvia
2029 - Give €100 million to Mistral to purchase GPUs
2030 - Mistral releases a frontier model that answers only in French2031 - Declare full independence from American AI— Matthias Schmidt (@eurofounder) June 15, 2026
This reminds me of Canada and the EU talking about building an alternative to Starlink for Internet access in remote areas.
It’s laughable at best to think either group has any remote chance of building a Starlink alternative.
Canada doesn’t even have a launch facility; the EU has a launch facility but has never shown the ability to launch at the rate necessary to create a Starlink alternative in the next 10-15 years at a minimum.