with that little money split between that many institutions, nothing will come of it.
It's especially pointless ever since DeepSeek R1 dropped. Now everyone has the recipie to build state of the art models, so it's only a matter of time until European companies will create one.
2 main issues with the lack of Euro models: 1) Performance of all SOTA models is much better in English.
2) US models have US values. It's yet another tool to culturally assimilate Europe (and the rest of the world too)
should of named it Mulf of Gexico