[torginus]

wdym? it says 13.5 million euros has been allocated to the project - you aint building a frontier LLM with that kind of money, but its enough to give research opportunities and real-world experience to a handful of researchers, and build up local competence.

These people can then fund for-profit companies once they have a promising approach and bring in private investment.

As for nationalism, like it or not, this is a govt sponsored effort, and governments and universities are funded by the public of specific nations

[saidnooneever]

this exactly. its not nationalistic at all to support your local development. this project has different goals than people perceive and their comments are all missing the plank ;)