German AI on the cutting edge, but commercially at a loss – DW – 02/16/2025

German AI on the cutting edge, but commercially at a loss – DW – 02/16/2025

As part of the European Union’s efforts to keep up in the race of developing artificial intelligence (AI), the bloc recently announced a €200-billion ($208-billion) funding program for the breakthrough technology.

It comes as US President Donald Trump launched multibillion-dollar AI projects in January and China made headlines with its own large language model (LLM) called DeepSeek.

A screenshot of a DeepSeek website welcoming users to the company's AI chatbot
China’s DeepSeek is one of the few foundation models with a potential of breaking the US dominance in…

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