Dan's AI Intel

Europe and AI: The Continent That Quietly Quit the Frontier

Dan's AI Intel

Show Notes

Ursula von der Leyen says Europe will be the "first AI Continent." The numbers say otherwise: about 5% of the world's AI compute sits in Europe versus 75% in the US, and one American AI company's…

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