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EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe

Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, urged the European Commission to bring Anthropic to Europe in response to a U.S. ban on advanced AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for foreign users. The proposal aims to reduce EU dependence on U.S. AI, but experts deem it unrealistic, while turning to Chinese models would merely replace one dependency with another.

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Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, is calling on the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to Europe. He's responding to the U.S. ban on advanced AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for foreign users. The initiative is likely unrealistic, though. And the alternative floating in the background, Chinese AI models, would just trade one dependency for another.

The article EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe appeared first on The Decoder.

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