Analyzing Schwarz Group’s €11B investment in Europe’s largest AI data center and its implications for industrial-scale AI infrastructure in Europe.
Anchor. The Schwarz Group model.
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EuroHPC. The compute substrate.
An analysis of EuroHPC’s compute substrate, its current capabilities, limitations, and implications for Europe’s AI scaling ambitions as of May 2026.
Apertus. The architectural template.
Apertus, developed by the Swiss AI Initiative, is a new open, multilingual, compliance-first AI model designed as a sovereign European AI infrastructure template.
Q3 2026 SaaS Earnings Pre-Brief: The Litmus Test for the Agentic-Disruption Thesis
Preliminary review of Q3 2026 SaaS earnings indicates a key test for the agentic-disruption thesis amid shifting SaaS economics and market repricing.
Forward-Deployed Engineer Economics 2.0: The Unit Economics Math, Six Months Later
Six months after initial analysis, FDE unit economics reveal profitability at enterprise scale but risks at lower levels, shaping AI industry growth.
Aleph Alpha. The retrospective case.
Analyzing Aleph Alpha’s strategic pivot, leadership exit, and merger with Cohere to understand Europe’s AI development challenges.
Engineering Is Automated. Research Is the Residual.
Recent benchmarks show AI can automate core engineering tasks, while research remains less automated, raising questions about future AI development.
OpenEuroLLM. The third path.
European consortium OpenEuroLLM faces significant compute challenges as it progresses toward July 2026 model delivery, highlighting limits of pan-European AI efforts.
The Coding Singularity Is Real — and Steeper Than Clark Presented
New data confirms AI coding capabilities are advancing faster, pushing toward a recursive self-improvement loop, with implications for industry and policy.
Mistral. The fourth path.
Mistral, a Paris-based AI firm, raised over $830M in 2026, becoming Europe’s strongest commercial AI player, yet still behind US leaders in reasoning tasks.
