... And there's another massive crack in the (unsustainable) business model behind the AI boom:
"Chinese-developed language models now account for roughly 61% of token consumption among the top 10 models on OpenRouter, a platform used by thousands of AI startups."
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RIP FCAS: “Berlin pulls plug on Franco-German fighter jet”
On European defence integration and collaboration, it’s two steps forward, one step back (or sometimes three).
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Chinese LLMs now dominate OpenRouter traffic, accounting for 61% of top model token consumption as American startups shift from US to Chinese AI models.cryptobriefing.com
The Napoleonic tradition really does nail it sometimes.
This will quite radically upend the power balance in Europe.
UK and France used to lead on the military, Germany on the economy.
In several years, no more.
How does Britain handle this new (diminished) role? Can Germany handle doing both? What about Poland and Ukraine?
In short: China's models are open, cheap and capable, America's are capable but very expensive.
The latter approach is not what will usually win the race.
Soviet war memorial
(Long time coming of course).
Schloss Neuhardenberg, on the outskirts of Berlin.
The site where most of the planning for the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler took place.
A school during most of the DDR years, it was given back to the Hardenberg family after the fall of the wall.
