wdym? it says 13.5 million euros has been allocated to the project - you aint building a frontier LLM with that kind of money, but its enough to give research opportunities and real-world experience to a handful of researchers, and build up local competence.
These people can then fund for-profit companies once they have a promising approach and bring in private investment.
As for nationalism, like it or not, this is a govt sponsored effort, and governments and universities are funded by the public of specific nations
this exactly. its not nationalistic at all to support your local development. this project has different goals than people perceive and their comments are all missing the plank ;)
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