Comment by Sergey Lagodinsky

For Brussels it’s time to act. Though we have fallen far behind, a combination between sovereignty, scale, and reforms is our only chance to catch up. [...] Second, the Commission must marshal international partners. Pool AI compute – capabilities to process data for AI - beyond European borders towards a consortium of middle powers. [...] Finally, and in parallel to this, the Commission should build a new relationship with the US. It is a hard pill to swallow: whether we like it or not, in the medium term, Europe will depend on American compute and chip infrastructure to grow its own providers at the application layer. [...] What Europe needs is a path of strategic parallelism: cooperating with Washington where we must, while building capacities and infrastructure that will one day let us stand alone.