🛡 # The Collapse of European AI Sovereignty
The article analyzes Europe's strategic failure in the AI sector, caused by betting exclusively on the application layer while renting foundation models from the US and China. The catalyst was the US administration's suspension of access to the Fable series of models from Anthropic, which exposed the lack of real technological sovereignty.
🌍 It emphasizes the critical importance of owning the AI "substrate" (foundation models and infrastructure), rather than just interfaces. Without its own frontier models and continuous training cycles, the economic value created by European users will continue to leak outside the region.
👤 The article provides insight into why having applications based on GPT or Claude does not make a country or company technologically independent, and explains the difference between "rented sovereignty" and real control over technology.
Source 1: https://pleias.ai/blog/fable-eu