Devil's advocate: Why should EU tax payers fund open source initiatives and not proprietary European initiatives that will help Europe compete against American and Chinese tech giants?
They should fund something. A proprietary European initiative is definitely better. The open source alternative should be EU's last resort. But as it stands the EU is nowhere to be found. I am not sure how impactful LLMs will be on a scale of autocomplete to industrial revolution, but the EU needs to notice it and plan for something.
