I'm from the EU. Silicon Valley says AI innovation is impossible in Europe. Too much red tape. Too little funding. But these 9 European AI companies are changing the narrative:

🚀 Europe's AI Dilemma: Act Now or Fall Behind 🌍 The US and China are investing billions in AI while Europe's approach remains fragmented. 💡 What AI startups should Europe build? pollunit.com/polls/7spcr1p0… The window is closing fast. #EuropeanAI #TechSovereignty #FutureOfAI

Where do AI companies rank against big tech in terms of revenue efficiency? This chart, using data from Dealroom + Flashpoint, shows that AI coding assistant Cursor (developed by Anysphere) is the highest performer with $3.1m of revenue for every employee.

The Euro economy has grown by an astonishing 12% since January, or 41% growth compounded annually, in nominal USD terms at current rates. This is how GDP is measured by die hards, any other way of measurement is cope 😉

ChatGPT's product retention curves is a product manager's wet dream. Their 1 month retention has skyrocketed from <60% 2yrs ago to an unprecedented ~90%! Youtube was best-in-class with ~85%. 6mo retention is trending to ~80%. Rapidly rising smile curve. Generational product.

EU-Inc is close to the finishing line (of the first stage) 🇪🇺 All the politicians in Brussel want "something like it". It's the #1 item on the commission's strategy. Now the hard part is to make sure the politicians have the ambition to get the details right. You can have the

who benefits from the big beautiful bill heading back to the house (and about to pass)

“AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating this brand-warfare from the outside about us up? Europe has the strongest precision manufacturing in the world, we have leading teams in AI, CV, robotics. Europe is a leader in Automation and Frontier Tech!

Americans/MAGA’s are obsessed with bragging about GDP per capita. And they like claiming their poorest state is more rich than any country in Europe. It’s spinning data. Here’s the truth 👇

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I'm currently reading a comparison of health systems globally. There are about 4 sentences that really sum it up. 1/4: “The United States is the only developed country that lets insurance companies profit from basic health coverage”

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It's #Caturday and our cat just knocked over my coffee for the third time this week. Send help... or cat pics! 🐱📷

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🚀 AI & Policy: Scaling AI in Europe: Join Us in Amsterdam! Europe is at a pivotal moment in the global AI race, and on 11 Dec we’re bringing the people shaping that future together under one roof to answer: 👉 How can Europe capture the benefits of AI and scale with

One of Europe's main priorities should be setting up sovereign semiconductor fabs. It's insanity that we have the only company making the machines, but we don't use them ourselves. Europe should dominate the entire semiconductor sector. 🇪🇺

We’re currently prioritizing 3 types of hires at General Intuition 1) top researchers in world modeling / policy learning (ideally both) 2) engineers with deep exp in complex 3d sim environments+ML cloud infra. Backend + engine. 3) large scale data ops (eng/teleop/etc) Dm open!