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The Long Game: Building Europe’s Sovereign AI Layer
OpenGPT-X, TrustLLM, OpenEuroLLM — three projects, three hard lessons in what it actually takes to build foundation models in Europe at scale.
The technical challenges are real, but rarely the ones you’d expect. The governance ones even less so.
This keynote unpacks the journey honestly: where European open-source AI stands today, why the foundational intelligence layer matters more than most policy debates acknowledge, and what building it has taught us about the gap between ambition and craft.
The window is open. The Frontier AI Momentum is still there. The question is whether we’re serious about climbing through it.
The technical challenges are real, but rarely the ones you’d expect. The governance ones even less so.
This keynote unpacks the journey honestly: where European open-source AI stands today, why the foundational intelligence layer matters more than most policy debates acknowledge, and what building it has taught us about the gap between ambition and craft.
The window is open. The Frontier AI Momentum is still there. The question is whether we’re serious about climbing through it.
