S1. 1 Launching an ‘AI moonshot’ to develop a European large language model is the game changer that Europe needs

Launching an ‘AI moonshot’ to develop a European large language model is the game changer that Europe needsBy Robert PraasThe changes in society being led by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are immense. Among the available AI technologies, language models are right now most universally beneficial for citizens, industry and governments. Yet the most powerful language models are being developed outside Europe by companies such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic.This is why the European Commission should launch a dedicated mission for a collaborative European language model to ensure Europe doesn’t miss the AI boat.AI is currently an industry where scale matters. If there hasn’t been enough computation spent on understanding the patterns in the data, or the data isn’t comprehensive enough, then the outputs will lack quality. Larger investments tend to pay off. In usual settings there are diminishing returns to investment, but for language models there’s a threshold of investment that needs to be reached before the model can even be considered a relevant addition to the market.Watch more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.