I love to see this competition between companies trying to get the best LLM, and also, the fact that they’re trying to make them useful as tools, focusing on math, science, coding, and so on
TBH, while I feel like this is the way, I’m noticing more and more politicians using this as a way to simply gather more votes with a "cause US bad" angle.
Companies are eager to get your money, so they'll try to get an "EU made" label and use it as marketing as hard as they can, even if 90% of their operation happens outside the EU.
And the way they talk, it seems like decoupling from the US is something trivial done overnight. No, it is not, it’s a kind of a slow process in some areas, and pragmatic decisions must be made along the way.
If you’re in the US, all these features will be geoblocked, so you can enjoy your walled garden as much as you like.
If you’re in the EU, just stick to Apple products and avoid any alternatives.
We use OVH at my company too. They are pretty good and affordable.
My only complaint is that one day, they had an electrical problem on their datacenter and we were down for an entire day. We lost dozens of clients that day.
But this was 6 years ago, so a lot must have changed since then. And yes, I know we should have had a plan for when such things happen, but we didn't have one. Nowadays we have a different architecture with more than one cloud provider for redundancy, and it's cheaper than having everything on AWS.
The iPad is in a kind of gray landscape because it is not phone and it is not a Mac but they are treated special like the iPhone so they can put any greed-based limitations they want instead of it becaming a general computer.
For those of you who, like me, use Neovim, you can achieve "cursor at home" by using a plugin like Avante.nvim or CodeCompanion. You can configure it to suit your preferences.
Just sharing this because I think some might find it useful.
It’s genuinely sad to see the world splintering into waves of nationalistic protectionism.
Not long ago, we had something promising, a slow but steady crawl toward a united global community. Progress was gradual, sure, but it was real. Countries could specialize and trade freely: I’d buy your chips, you’d buy my steel, and we’d both come out ahead. It worked.
Now, though, it’s all about "national sovereignty" and "independence" as if going it alone could ever match the strength of interdependence.
The trust we built feels shattered and TBH it’s hard to imagine it being rebuilt anytime soon, if ever.
This feels more like a release they pushed out to keep the "hype" alive rather than something they were eager to share. Honestly, the results don’t seem all that impressive, and considering the price, it just doesn’t feel worth it.
Does this only apply to usage, or does it include training the model as well? Training a model is extremely expensive, and it’s hard to imagine a company investing a huge amount of money to develop two different models just to comply with regulations (though maybe it’s worth it, I’m just guessing here).
I think it’s more likely that companies would adhere to EU regulations and use the same model everywhere or implement some kind of filter.
This brings back good old memories. Sublime was my editor from 2010 until 2016, when I switched to VS Code. Eventually, I got hooked on Neovim, and I still use it to this day since I can't live without Vim motions anymore.
But I built dozens of websites using Sublime, so in a way, it helped me earn $300k.
In academia, respect for complexity still exists, but industries prioritize simplicity to enable mass production, reduce costs, and make things easier for people to understand, remember, and use. That’s why logos are becoming flat, with simple shapes and colors, buildings are often bland rectangular boxes, and apps have fewer texts and buttons on each screen.
As with almost everything, we need to find a balance between simplicity and complexity.
Although this solution is as cool as Coolify and will probably improve in the future, I still prefer to Dockerize my applications because, after that, switching between cloud providers becomes easy.
In the example, it shows syncing returning a promise. Is there no way to track the progress of the sync?