Personally I'm hoping for EU to step up a bit

We'll make sure there will be enough regulations to have neither the electricity to power it or the companies to build it.

Well quite a few nuclear powerplants have had to shut down recently due to droughts... So we are well on the way for that!

1970s design.

Sorry we a focusing on leather handbags there.

The leather bag designs are shipped from Paris or Milan to China for production.

But some worker in Italy bolts on a zipper in the end so it’s actually Italian, believe it or not.

That worker is also Chinese, but in Milano.

It depends on the bags. I know people who work in handbags production, in France.

Seems incredibly unlikely, doesn't it? (I hope for the same thing but it feels almost like wishful thinking!)

The EU is not a state or some federation. It's like a NAFTA+ It unfortunately doesn't have the risk averse VC system (or pragmatic state driven like China) ecosystem to support the scaling required.

But if models will be commodities, maybe that won't be such a terrible thing longterm?

Personally I don't. Wasting enormous amounts of resources on a technology that doesn't make money, can easily be copied, and eats up everyone's energy while at the same time can be downloaded over the internet is kind of stupid.

The fact that China could catch up in what, two years, shows that this is a commodity.

A fantastically useful commodity that resists monopoly is the best outcome.

EU is out of game and can't be back anytime soon.