With Europe being outspent by Asia and North America when it comes to AI research, the European Commission has warned that the continent “cannot afford to maintain the current fragmented landscape” in which no research centre has “the scale necessary to compete with the leading institutes globally”. To remedy that, Brussels wants Europe to have a “lighthouse centre of research, innovation and expertise” that will become a “world reference of excellence in AI” that hosts “the best talents in the field”. (2020) source Unverified