Europe needs Intelligence Independence.

Generally it is considered that there are 5 key resources needed for any society to thrive: water, food, energy, raw material and human capital. We believe that in the near future, if not already, automated Intelligence (or the ability to make decisions automatically) will become one of these key resources.
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Why independence matters.

01 · The baseline

We are the decisions we make.

What we build, whom we trust, how we spend, how we vote. Every outcome, for a person, a company or a whole country, begins as a decision, and the quality of those decisions sets the quality of everything that follows.

That decisions matter needs no argument. The real question is who makes them, and with whose tools.

02 · Dependence on others

Whoever advises, steers.

More and more decisions start with a question to an AI. Picture an engineer asking which components to build a new product on, and a system that, by the will of whoever controls it, only ever recommends that party's products. Not necessarily bad ones. Just not necessarily the best ones for us. European options quietly stop showing up.

The same holds far beyond industry. The advice behind political decisions shapes whom we align with, whom we support, and, in the end, whom those decisions really serve.

03 · Falling behind

Second-best tools, second-best results.

AI is not just one industry among many. It accelerates science, engineering, medicine and nearly everything else. If the best models belong to someone else, they decide what we get: a slightly weaker model, a later release, a higher price.

Each of those slows us down in every field at once. Losing the race for AI means falling behind in all the races it drives.

04 · Whose values

Every model carries a worldview.

A model learns from the data, rules and priorities of the people who build it: which sources it trusts, what it will not discuss, what it considers balanced. Those choices reflect the laws and culture of the place it is made.

Europe has its own: privacy, pluralism, the rule of law. A model built elsewhere follows them only as far as its makers choose to.

05 · Reality check

Is this really a threat?

The last time you compared products, where did you start? With ChatGPT or Claude? If not, perhaps with Google, again a company outside Europe deciding which information you see first.

Decision-makers are human too. When a politician wants to understand a complex topic, there is nothing wrong with asking an AI; we all do. But if that AI, shaped by someone else's interests, suggests how to vote on a law, it takes part in the decision. This is no accusation against anyone. It is a risk too real to ignore.

What about existing European providers?

We have great respect for the existing providers in the AI sector. Europe already has some strong ones, we plan to build on Mistral's models from the start, and we hope to work with more of them in the future. We believe a mix of collaboration and friendly competition is what makes a field succeed.
Where we put the emphasis differently is usability. Intelligence only becomes a resource for society once it reaches everyone, and that takes a real product that is easy for everyday people to use, not only for those comfortable with APIs.
Most of today's big tech players reached their position not through technology alone, but because people could actually use what they built. Whoever is in people's hands sets the default. We want that to be the European one.