"SoftBank has pledged to invest up to €75bn in a vast network of AI computing clusters in France, backing what would be Europe’s biggest data centre project as the region races to catch up with the US and China in AI infrastructure."

As a European, I do not believe in European AI.

All of Europe's top AI talent immediately gets recruited away by the American megacorps. European companies simply cannot compete with the salaries and opportunities these corporations can offer. In addition the EU is infamous for being an overregulated bureaucracy monster.

The only two reasons for top AI talent not to move to the US are A.) Anti-Americanism or B.) Patriotism. Now, Anti-Americanism is an ideology of dumb socialist-leaning folk who are not high performers in anything and patriotism has been killed by Europe's left-wing ruling class. This is proven by the fact that indeed all top AI talent produced by Europe thus far has moved to the US.

The most recent, prominent example being Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw.

"In February 2026, he announced he would be joining OpenAI and rejecting an offer to join Meta. [...] In 2026, he said he was moving to the United States, saying that there was too much regulation and "scolding" stifling AI development in Europe." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Steinberger_(programmer)]