I would agree with the (highly summarized) premise of the article if Europe actually had a technology strategy. I’ve seen the multiple announcements of “national pride” LLM initiatives that aim to create “a native national chatbot”, sometimes launched under extremely cringe circumstances (like the Portuguese one, announced at WebSummit and that is going to be trained at a “partially Portuguese” “supercomputer” in Spain, which most of us found hilarious).

Otherwise, Europe is doomed to doing pointless, prematurely dead-ended one-offs.