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What changedBlack Forest Labs chief executive Robin Rombach says Europe needs to treat AI as an opportunity if it wants to catch up with the United States and China. He argues that frontier AI development requires capital and computing power, and that Europe’s cautious financing culture can hold companies back.
In an interview with AFP, Rombach also defended open-weight models, saying they increase transparency and safety. That is his case for openness, not proof that open weights alone make systems safer. He warned against leaving a consequential technology in the hands of a few companies.
The practical tension is familiar, but useful: Europe wants competitive AI firms, while questions about safety and control remain unresolved. Rombach’s prescription is to move faster and keep development open; whether those ideas can be made to work together is the argument worth having.
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