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Aleph Alpha. The retrospective case.
An in-depth analysis of Aleph Alpha’s strategic pivot, acquisition, and the lessons for European sovereign AI development in 2026.
Engineering Is Automated. Research Is the Residual.
Recent developments show AI now automates most engineering tasks in AI R&D; research remains partially human-driven. Impacts future AI innovation.
Software engineering. The canonical case.
New data confirms a 40% drop in junior hiring and a bifurcated impact on senior engineers due to AI, with ongoing pipeline risks and macroeconomic factors.
OpenEuroLLM. The third path.
OpenEuroLLM, a €37.4M EU-funded project, aims to develop a multilingual open-source LLM through a pan-European consortium, facing significant compute challenges.
The Coding Singularity Is Real — and Steeper Than Clark Presented
New data confirms the coding singularity is occurring sooner and more deeply than previously thought, with AI handling most routine software engineering tasks.
Mistral. The fourth path.
Mistral raises €2B, trains large models on 3,000 GPUs, and leads Europe’s commercial AI front, but still faces capability gaps compared to US rivals.
Minerva. The opposite path.
Italy’s Minerva-3B, trained from scratch on 2.5 trillion tokens, scores just 4.9% on Italian school exams, raising questions about scale and investment in sovereign LLMs.
The Forecast Is the Plan.
Major AI firms publicly commit to automating AI R&D by 2026, signaling a strategic shift that could reshape the industry and workforce.
AMÁLIA · The Three Hard Questions.
Portugal’s €5.5M AMÁLIA language model is operational but raises key structural questions about openness, native data, and objectives, impacting national AI strategy.
