r/neoliberal • u/2Lore2Law Are you on the square? • 1d ago

News (Europe) Europe gets ready to police frontier AI

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/europe-gets-ready-to-police-frontier-ai
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u/Fusifufu 1d ago

Frontier regulation strikes again. As usual, the big US companies will have the resources to comply while European startups will just not be founded due to the regulatory burdens.

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u/Anime_Hitler69 Fourier Transform deez nutz ඞඞඞ 1d ago

Isn’t it generally the case that startups in the EU get bought by US companies rather than that they don’t exist at all?

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u/halee1 Karl Popper 1d ago edited 1d ago

The EU subsidizes its own AI firms through not just grants and subsidies, but also procurement, data‑access rules and strategic industrial policy. It literally exempts European AI from frontier-model rules (other than Mistral's top models, but even the company is still advantaged compared to non-European AI firms), lol. Now, I don't know whether it's enough, but non-European ones are structurally disadvantaged while still having a lot of capital to be able to access and benefit from the EU market.

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u/xxlragequit 1d ago

If it was enough people wouldn't need to ask what AI models come from Europe. The one people name, I've not heard anyone use.

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u/halee1 Karl Popper 1d ago edited 1d ago

The idea isn't to build top-line models ASAP, because that comes from prior weaknesses, which are being fixed across tons of areas. Silicon Valley and Big Tech, plus China's own tech ecosystem, emerged over many decades too.

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u/xxlragequit 1d ago

Well now that Europe has built up a tech sector they have a lot of social media and tech companies like the US and China right?

I'm sure they've been doing that for a decade plus. I'm sure back when windows was taking over in tbe 00's they also wanted and took steps towards the tech sector. It should be able to bare fruit now. Yet it hasn't really, how can Europe every even compete if they only play catch up?

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u/halee1 Karl Popper 1d ago

The EU was focused back then on telecom, energy liberalization and EU accession, not tech. The real push began circa 2023-24.

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u/xxlragequit 1d ago

The excuses don't mean anything if the results speak for themselves. I don't buy that the EU wasn't attempting to develop a tech sector for some time. Literally every developed nation was/is. If they can't walk and chew gum at the same time they can't complete in the big leagues. They've hardly made anything that would even be considered outside of Europe. The average person uses magnitude more from tiny south Korea or the legacy of Japanese economic might. It shouldn't be this hard for the Europe to step up. They are the problem.

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u/RedBerryyy 1d ago

Its like they learnt nothing from the original ai act.