# Germany fact of the day sentence to ponder

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> Published: 2026-06-15 18:38:29+00:00

# Germany fact of the day sentence to ponder

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.