Europe puts the batteries with artificial intelligence: this wants the EU to become the "continent of AI"

Artificial intelligence and Europe

The use of artificial intelligence in our digital life is nothing new. Many years ago algorithms of all kinds are used so that hardware and software are more intelligent, predictive and efficient. What happens is that, since the arrival of Chatgpt, the world of AI is in full hatching. It is a race that Europe is losing. How does the old continent intend to remedy this situation?

Investments and less bureaucracy. In a nutshell, these are the changes that have been raised at the Summit of Action on Artificial Intelligence in Paris, where there have been representation, in addition to European countries, the main powers in the AI field: the United States and China. Next, I analyze all the conclusions and actions that will be launched by the European Union so as not to be left behind in the development of AI. I also tell you about Le Chat, a chatbot that comes with most of the chatgpt functions and that is presented as a first sample of the European potential in generative artificial intelligence.

AI is much more than content generation

Despite the efforts of great technological ones, it seems that the generative AI does not finish taking off among the masses. Safely, It will take time that the general public gets used to to interact in a different way with its devices and applications. In addition, Microsoft, Apple, Google and the rest of the companies must achieve Implementations that really contribute value to the user. Apple Intelligence promised, but has been disappointing. Copilot in Windows It is nothing more than a cloud service without real integration with the system, although Copilot in Office does seem to be much more useful.

The underlying technology of generative AI can have many applications

I do not think that governments hope that we use AI just to ask for a recipe with what we have in the fridge. The really valuable thing is the underlying technology that gives life to applications such as Chatgpt. The algorithms, and especially the generatives, are radically changing fundamental fieldssuch as data analysis, understanding of natural language, medicine and productivity within the company. As he said Ursula von der LeyenPresident of the European Commission, “IA will improve our health care, stimulate our research and innovation and promote our competitiveness“Personally, it seems to me that this is the key point.

The AI modelswhere we can also include language, reasoning and dissemination models, allow machines to “understand” our world much better. They learn fast and warn patterns that for humans usually go unnoticed. Best of all, the models are flexible and capable of working in different fields. In fact, they earn a lot of value when they become specialized.

Europe is falling behind, but wants to be the continent of the AI

Europe wants to change its disadvantage position, because It is staying behind in the development of new ia solutions. To become the “continent of AI”, the plan is to invest much more in this technology to develop within the EU borders. It is the only way to alleviate the current dependency of the United States and prevent it from ending up chronifying, as is already happening in other sectors.

Additionally, China, little by little, is putting at the same levelbecoming a serious competitor in the race to dominate this technology. In fact, this country has been the incubator of projects as interesting as Deepseek. This little startup launched two models that matched the capabilities of Openai models, with a rather lower execution cost.

As for the promised investments, here are a summary:

Macron announced 109,000 million euros For data centers and AI projects.
The EU AI Champions consortium was launched with 150,000 million euros of international financing (USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Sweden).
Ursula von der Leyen announced Investai, an initiative that will mobilize 200,000 million euros in investments for AIincluding a European fund of 20,000 million euros for gigafabrica of AI.
The EU has already financed AI factories with 10,000 million euroswhich has generated more private investment.

It is clear that without the necessary investments, Europe will not be able to catch up in research and development of AI. Now, another problem that European administrations must solve is that of the bureaucracy. Community regulations are too strict and could even say inflexible. The latter endangers European innovation with respect to a Technology that evolves rapidSometimes surprisingly.

It is not surprising, therefore, that the simplification of bureaucracy in Europe was protagonist at the Summit of Action on Artificial Intelligence in Paris. These are the key points:

It seeks to simplify the regulatory framework to promote technological development.
The EU artificial intelligence law must be applied in a “innovation -oriented” way.
The EU will simplify its digital norms with new legislative packages.
Investai will serve as a public-private partnership model, similar to CERN but for AI, to promote collaborative innovation.

Mistral and le chat: French technology as spearhead

In this analysis I could not forget Mistrala French company that wants to stand up to AI giants, such as OpenAi or Google. Le Chat is a chatbot application that has been talking a lot in recent days. After trying it, I have something very clear: it has nothing to envy to its competitors.

After registration, we access a well -known interface at this point. In the center there is a text drawer where to write the requests and start the magic of the generative AI. Little chatgpt is missing with lestral le chat, and more after clicking on the small flechite that is just below. With a single button, all the potential of this AI appears before the user.

For free users, Le chat has the following tools:

Canvasto help you structure ideas and write.
Web searchto inform you of the latest news and obtain links.
Image generation. This function uses the Flux Mistral model. In the absence of trying it in depth, I confirm that it works very well.
Code interpreter. It helps you generate code and, in addition, to execute it within the chatbot itself.

And then there is the answer speed. Le chat is very fast. According to official comparisons of Mistral, it is able to generate 1100 tokens per second. To get an idea, in the same task, Chatgpt achieves 85 tokens per second. You can see it in the following video:

This is not, from afar, a complete analysis of Le Chat. Rather, it is only a sample of what this small European company is achieving and how it could soon become the spearhead of the development of AI Made in Eu.

A long way to go

The history of technology teaches us something: it doesn’t matter to get the first, it matters to do better. Europe still has time to catch up in the field of AI and demonstrate that it is willing to really innovate in this field. He financial support to companies in the sectoras a mistral, it is indispensable, as well as the Bureaucracy reduction. Only in this way, ideas can flow within European borders. And with them, innovation will come.