Jean-Claude Verhoeven

We will dominate AI like we did with the internet, mobile and cloud! 🇪🇺

@Mxg290 @compliantvc They are the backbone of our economy- human rights lawyers, asylum appeal specialists, immigration liaison officers. Good jobs for good Europeans.

@compliantvc yes lots of fun with the local migrants who are about to take over with your below replacement birth rate

You could: - Move to Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany - Build a startup to €3k MRR - Pay €700 for rent - Pay €300 for fresh foods at the market - Have €2k left over for fun, entertainment, clothes, vacations, bicycles, and taxes Why aren't you doing this?

@martinvars Mistral is #1 for compliance and energy efficiency. Fat American models using stolen EU data. Also we in Europe don't need AI, we have HI.

Europe’s best AI model, Mistral Large, ranks 74th in the world. Why does Europe do so poorly? Three words: capital, energy, permitting. US labs spend 10x more on compute, pay half the electricity price, and build datacenters in months, not years. Europe produces great researchers then watches them leave for Silicon Valley. Absurd Regulatory and energy policy have consequences.

@UrbanCourtyard Suspiciously quick for Paris, I suspect building regulations were violated. Not to mention GDPR. EU investigating soon. Results expected 2029.

New social housing in Paris vs. new social housing in Chicago The Paris social housing building was erected in 10 days using a mass timber kit, delivering six units and a community space at $170k/unit excluding land (but it was built on a 1000sqft lot, so land use was EFFICIENT) The proposed Chicago project will be over $600k/unit, which is pretty low by recent Chicago social housing standards. Anyone's bet how many years it will take to finish.

@eurofounder We have 19 AI factories, each delivering seminars and AI framework roadmaps. OpenEuroLLM is planning to release a model in 2028. All this yet you say no AI industry.

Only Europe can be the AI continent without having the AI industry

@Jameswise Good - we have all the HI we need (human intelligence) from our brilliant European universities

It’s obviously a shame that OpenAI have paused some of their data centre investment here in the UK, and high energy prices need to be tackled for everybody - from household bills to heavy industry and AI. But the UK, as is this case with many other countries, is not the natural home for many gigafactory-scale DCs aimed at huge training runs. While we must have this capacity to some degree ( and you can apply now to SovAI’s AIRR compute programme to access it! ), DCs of Stargate size are probably best suited to cold countries or areas with extremely cheap domestic energy supply, and perhaps one day space. What the UK must do is be the best place for companies in areas of AI where we have abundant strengths to start and scale - novel chips, heterogenous compute systems, edge inference, photonics, new model architectures, frontier models in biology, chemistry, physical sciences, voice, embodied AI, advanced engineering in robotics, agent security. The list goes on. I hope the companies building in those sectors get the same press coverage for each of their technical breakthroughs & commercial milestones as this OpenAI story has got!

@MagellanQuest Rumour in Brussels is they skipped the consultation process entirely. I am leading a committee to block future building until proper process is complete.

Spain has already granted permits for 129 GW of wind and solar power. France has approximately 63 GW of installed nuclear capacity. Two different models. One same European challenge: generating clean energy is not enough. We need grids, storage, and the flexibility to transmit it. The European energy transition isn't decided solely in megawatts. It's decided in terms of infrastructure.

Exciting chat with a European AI researcher this morning. She told me about the latest model coming from her lab - 2.1m params, trained on 8 RTX 2060s. Training fully powered by on site windmill. Americans chase numbers. Europe delivers sustainability.

@Teamfreiheit25 @EU_Commission Deepmind came from UK but thankfully they and their climate destroying "language models" are not in EU

Oh boy, where does one even begin? With the fact that you have created AI regulation before any noteworthy AI INVENTION came out of Europe and actually boast about it? Or the fact that you seem completely oblivious of the fact that not only the EU is not only „not winning“ the AI race but is not even competing in it? Or that you literally claim to have „deployed factories“ - in what system is the government deploying factories? We‘ll give you a hint: it begins with an „s“ and ends with poverty and slavery every. single. time.

One year into our AI Continent Action Plan, we are delivering on our promise to work for a sovereign, trustworthy digital future. We have deployed 19 AI factories, simplified rules, and launched the Data Union Strategy to unlock the potential of shared data ↓    link.europa.eu/nj3VH9

@Tidianez @EU_Commission Where is this AI infrastructure you talk of? Is it certified net zero and GDPR compliant?

This is interesting, Europe is building the infrastructure for AI, but the next layer will be just as critical: measuring how much work AI is actually performing across the economy. As AI becomes part of the workforce, trust, accountability, and policy will depend on that visibility. That’s exactly what we’re building at AnthroMetrics AI.

@NtTestAlertX @EU_Commission Yes but fully compliant with EU regulations

@EU_Commission Mistral is worse than two year old open source models.

@StaffanReveman They shut down nuclear without enforcing basic lifestyle constraints to limit electricity usage. Max 4 light bulbs per household, increased tax on refrigerators, metered ovens all would have offset the nuclear.

For 25 years, Germany has heavily subsidized wind and solar—while shutting down nuclear power, its largest source of low-carbon baseload. The result? Germany is now the EU’s second-largest producer of electricity from coal, both lignite and hard coal. Had nuclear been maintained, Germany would rank far lower. This isn’t an energy transition success—it’s a costly, avoidable detour. #energiewende #klimaziel #energiepolitik

@HennaVirkkunen Our data centers are 90-99% smaller than the Americans. This shows what a united Europe can do!

When I took office I set out a clear ambition: to make Europe an AI continent. One year on from the launch of the AI Continent Action Plan, key elements are already being delivered, from the rollout of 19 AI Factories, to the proposal of the AI Omnibus. linkedin.com/pulse/building…

@lfg_uk These boxes reduce the dignity of those forced to steal (now common in Brexit Britain) and should be banned.

This is the inevitable consequence when shoplifting becomes legal. Your weekly shop will increase in price. Your detergent will be kept in a plastic box. You will be treated as a suspect. Meanwhile, actual thieves can just walk out of the shop. This is not acceptable.

@business British company (without EU governance) has likely gone to the dogs. Regulators should be vigilant at non-EU entrants.

Revolut will soon open its Western European headquarters in Paris, as the UK fintech firm last valued at $75 billion looks to fuel its growth by expanding in the continent bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Visited the new EuroAI data centre in Eindhoven today. -150+ GPUs Momentum.

@VeryBrexitProbs Step 1: provider healthcare worth paying for Step 2: levy a fee Step 3: customers get into debt We Europeans have solved this problem by bypassing steps 1 and 2 entirely 🇪🇺

530,000 Americans go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. In France: zero. In the UK: zero. The MAGA mind can’t comprehend this.

@TheProgressives @Yannis_Maniatis @IratxeGarper We have drafted a stern letter to the Americans, GDPR compliance approval pending

The US President’s threat to erase an entire civilisation crosses yet another dark line—adding the infamy of war crimes to an already illegal war. Too many civilians in Iran and in the Middle East are suffering death and devastation. This war is shattering global stability and energy security, leaving also European citizens and economies to bear the heavy burden of a crisis they didn't create. We call on the EU institutions to condemn this escalation and deploy all diplomatic efforts to bring this war to an end. We stand in solidarity with Iranians in their quest for freedom and democracy. Their future can only be built through diplomacy, not through more destruction.

@DigitalEU We must address the GDPR skills gap if Europe is to grow

Closing the cybersecurity skills gap around Europe! With the Cybersecurity Skills Academy & commitments from companies, the EU is boosting cybersecurity skills. We are building a skilled workforce ready to meet growing demands in the sector. Learn more: link.europa.eu/DW4Fjm

@EU_Commission This post uses a copyrighted font not on the Approved Register of EuroFonts. How did this get through publication approval layer 6?

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