I'm too european for this.

EuroLLM is not a business venture so you can only compare it to other publicly funded and developed models of the US and China.

What deficit?

Confident politics and military, meaningful future proof investments, innovation in modern tech areas like CPU/GPU, AI, EV, Mobiles, etc. there is a lot.

What else, hmmm... Ohhh yes digitization, we "Germans" still can't let our FAXing machines go.

What we are good at, outsourcing and riding into deeper dependency of other continents.

They are not "competing" with US and China since this is not a business venture.

You don't seem to know how these models work? Check their Huggingface which IS linked there on their site.

https://huggingface.co/utter-project/EuroLLM-9B/tree/main

I would argue that Spez is the biggest "tool" in Reddit...

Biggest advertisers leaving the platform but I can't see them being so aware. Maybe if the largest subreddits stay indefinitely private until Spez is ousted.

So a call for sponsors to somehow join in on the action? How might that happen?

Flat earthers will just say its the Photoshop AI.

Interesting. Maybe they will say that the flat Earth is doing a barrel roll?

It seems that Reddit will go down like Digg did.

Unfortunately, I've been hearing this for like a decade and it doesn't seem to ever happen.

Digg.com’s implosion was so dramatic because Reddit was there to immediately start serving the same users just about the same thing. There are obviously plenty of other things Reddit users can do with their time, but there isn’t a monolith solution waiting in the wings to very closely replace Reddit with almost the exact same thing. Its destruction will be much more prolonged.

Exactly the same comments have been made about Twitter, and Twitter is still here.

More likely that people will simply forget in 3-4 weeks, like literally every other issue that can sort of blow over.