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[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 37 points 8 months ago (3 children)

with over 24k NVIDIA chips

So we celebrate this in "Buy European" that we made Nvidia rich ;-)

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

The EU has nothing to compete with chips wise, so in order to prevent America from running away with AI you have to use what they use as well

To be fair China doesn't have anything either but it is trying:

DeepSeekโ€™s next AI model delayed by attempt to use Chinese chips

https://www.ft.com/content/eb984646-6320-4bfe-a78d-a1da2274b092

Maybe if the EU can compete with AI it can use that extra productivity to help produce chips? but it would likely require a federal EU and a willingness to dump 10's of billions of dollars into the project same as space flight

[โ€“] affenlehrer@feddit.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

But they're now located in Jรผlich. Next to some heavily guarded nuclear waste.