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1) Talent. The more engineers are familiar with Llama, PyTorch, and the likes, the easier it is to find ML talent for Meta.

2) Free research and innovation that Meta can readily copy for their needs.

3) They don’t really give up any power. They can always keep future models proprietary.

In my opinion, it is a bit like Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.” Make SW publicly available, extend it to your own business needs, and if a competitor emerges, the power is still with Meta to restrict its use or copy the use case (“extinguish”).

I think the time is not necessarily the issue. The issue is that everything is very manual and “analog” in Germany. You have to find a notary, register the “Gewerbe” at the Gewerbeamt, get a tax ID, and so forth. All are different processes with different institutions.

In theory, you can do the notarization online, but when I attempted to do it, the first notary did not even reply, and the second one told me: “The system is currently down. I would need to come to the office.”

In the US, you can just use Stripe Atlas or similar services, and get everything done for $500 in a nice digital interface within 2 or 3 days. But even if it took 2 weeks, it wouldn’t matter much because one doesn’t have to put time and energy into it whereas in Germany you have to contact people, coordinate, etc…

Just try it. It just a lot more convenient and results are great.

1. Put rice in 2. Put water in. 3. Press a button. 4. Come back whenever you want (exact duration doesn‘t matter since a good rice cooker will keep the rice warm and moist).

It could indicate a very conservative or simple implementation of a cookie banner. That is, unless you consent to cookies, the homepages won’t store any cookies, not even a cookie to remember your cookie choice.

Hence, without any cookie, you will be treated like a first time visitor every time.

I am not a big fan of crypto either, but don’t understand why crypto (the technology itself) would be unethical.

Could you explain?

A physical letter is definitely nice but can be a hassle if you move.

ASML has awesome tech, and the European engineering deep tech supply chain has always been great. Look at the deep supply chains for automotive.

However, the comparison with Silicon Valley is superficial. Silicon Valley is an absolute powerhouse across the technology spectrum but particularly on the software side, and has repeatedly for decades churn out innovative companies. While the article calls ASML “digital”, based on my experience working with ASML, their unique strengths is system integration, not software.

And while there is plenty of scientific talent in Europe, which for semiconductor is somewhat clustered around Eindhoven thanks to ASML, the talent and capital density + culture of Silicon Valley is still unrivaled.

Fully agree. Even as second generation immigrant, meaning being born in the EU, I feel less accepted in the EU than when I lived in the US for two years.

I felt that doing things “differently” or having unique background is more often perceived positively in the US than in the EU. In the EU, the norms force you to fit in, whereas in the US, you are allowed to pave your own way, whether that means success or failure.