The most built-upon model on the Hugging Face Hub isn’t Llama or Qwen.
It’s FLUX.1-dev from Black Forest Labs, a German lab: 43k derivative models.
Europe trained ~8% of the open-model compute on the Hub, but ~18% of what people build on top of it is European.
Build or surrender? Build, and build open. See you at GTC Berlin this week
Should Europe leave frontier AI to the Americans and the Chinese?
The idea has gained ground in Europe. It is a fundamental mistake.
Build or surrender: for now, the choice is still ours.
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