Payment Technology and Innovations

Spain launches ALIA, a 40B multilingual LLM trained on 9.37 trillion tokens, marking Europe’s largest public AI initiative with €240M+ funding.

Analyzing the Stanford AI Index 2026, its methodology, reliability, and significance for AI policy and industry stakeholders.

An analysis of EuroHPC’s compute substrate, its current capabilities, structural challenges, and implications for Europe’s AI ambitions amid ongoing developments.

Thorsten Meyer analyzes Jack Clark’s recent forecast on AI development, revealing a bivalent outlook with significant implications for the field.

Schwarz Group’s €11B investment in a data center campus exemplifies Europe’s largest retail-led AI infrastructure project, raising questions about replicability.

Six months after initial analysis, the unit economics of FDEs reveal profitability at scale but risks at lower levels, impacting enterprise AI deployment strategies.

Kage, a new tool that shadows websites into a single binary for offline viewing, is being tested as a workflow for product and engineering leads at small software firms.

Analyzing Aleph Alpha’s strategic pivot, funding, and merger, highlighting the structural challenges faced by European sovereign-AI efforts.

Recent developments show AI now automates core engineering tasks in AI R&D, raising questions about the future role of human research.

OpenEuroLLM, a major EU-funded project to develop multilingual LLMs through a pan-European consortium, highlights compute resource limitations as a key challenge.