[notrealyme123]

Iirc: mistral has American investors, black forest labs hq has been moved to silicon valley.

[oytis]

That's another problem with the idea of tech sovereignity. Anything succesful, even if it started in Europe, will go global, including literally going to the USA

[rhubarbtree]

If the political regime in the US continues, that will come to an end. You can see it happening already - London has been a big beneficiary of Trump’s agenda.

[21asdffdsa12]

Hub and spoke market model of the world. Some realities can not change. could move back to britain-canada though.

[schubidubiduba]

Basically every company has American investors. But for Mistral, ASML is the biggest, I think, and the french founders also still hold significant amounts.

And Black Forest labs is still headquartered in Freiburg, Germany. They just have a lab in SF.

[lejalv]

That's why the European way to tech sovereignty is (publicly-funded) free software. Cannot be bought by unlimited VC money from The Valley, and it benefits the rest of the world, which is a tiny drop, and hence a necessary one, in Europe offsetting the damages of colonization, past and present.

[oytis]

Free software alone doesn't give you tech sovereignty. What matters is who integrates and runs the software.