Semafor(@semafor):Europe should build AI – and fear it, too, argues @TomChivers. Tom writes: Right now, Europe has just one AI firm, Mistral, anywhere near the frontier — and only a fraction of the 25 gigawatts of AI compute that the US has. If Europe doesn’t change course, it risks becoming an economic backwater, asset-stripped and descending into anarchy

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2026.07.01 23:01

Europe should build AI – and fear it, too, argues @TomChivers. Tom writes: Right now, Europe has just one AI firm, Mistral, anywhere near the frontier — and only a fraction of the 25 gigawatts of AI compute that the US has. If Europe doesn’t change course, it risks becoming an economic backwater, asset-stripped and descending into anarchy