EU promotes sovereign, trusted AI as it struggles to catch US and China

If supremacy in artificial intelligence was an Olympic discipline, there would only be two serious contenders for gold on current trajectories: the US and China . The European Union, as has been the case in many areas of cutting-edge technology in recent times, is barely in the AI conversation. Former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, whose 2024 report highlighted the EU's desperate need to be more innovative to become more competitive, said recently that AI is "perhaps the most promising" route the EU has to raise growth today. However, he decried the fact that the European Union controls little of the value chain.