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The main points are

1. regulatory sandbox

2. real-world testing environments

That is, EU countries can now build out data centers for model training/inference and give preferential access to their AI startups.

The EU doesn't want to repeat what happened with the cloud, where China protected their companies and the EU didn't. Now China has cloud giants, the EU doesn't.

All the name-calling on Twitter by SV shrills tells me the EU are on the right track.



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