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They also have the EU protectionism card which is pretty safe to assume they will play for Mistral and the Germans (Aleph Alpha) - and thus also for Meta (for the most part). Iirc the current legislation basically makes large scale exceptions for open source models.


Nobody is better at innovating in protectionism than the EU. EU MEPs work hard to come up with new ways of picking winners.


Given how much consumer protectionism Americans and others have thanks to the EU's domestic protectionism, it is certainly a mixed bag at worst.

In a strange way it's almost akin to how soviet propaganda in the cold war played a role in spurring on the civil rights movement in the states.




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