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Germany fact of the day sentence to ponder

A comparison shows Meta will spend $125 billion on chips in 2024, exceeding Germany's $114 billion defense budget, while offering over $100 million salaries to attract top AI researchers, yet still struggles to catch up in the AI race, raising questions about the effectiveness of a European AI model.

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Champions of a European AI model should ask themselves if a European effort would be more effective than Meta, which this year will spend more on chips (

[$125 billion]) than Germany spends on defense ([$114 billion]) and offer salaries of over[$100 million]to attract the best researchers, and is still failing to catch up.

Here is [more from Pieter Garicano and Simon Grimm](https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/nineteen-thoughts-on-ai-and-europe). Via Jesper.
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