The AI landscape has accelerated dramatically since the start of the year, marked by spectacular announcements from the USA and China. But there are other ways forward.
Gorillias embodies this alternative, offering European companies the opportunity to benefit from advances in AI while preserving their independence from American Big Tech or Chinese technology.
The race for technological domination
The $500 billion " Stargate " project launched by the Trump administration testifies to a frantic race for technological domination. Meta/Facebook and Microsoft confirmed new investments in AI for 2025 at $60 billion and $85 billion respectively in their quarterly releases this week.
At the same time, the emergence of DeepSeek, capable of developing high-performance AI at lower cost, is shaking up the ecosystem by opening the door to developments that are far less infrastructure-intensive than those of US Big Techs.
The European challenge
Faced with these giants, Europe seems to be lagging behind in developing an environment conducive to the rapid adoption of AI by businesses. The " European AI Act ", the first part of which comes into force on Sunday, although aimed at regulating the sector and protecting users, could paradoxically hold back investment and innovation initially.
American and Chinese projects are clearly "soft power" tools aimed at establishing their economic leadership and technological domination over the rest of the world. Europe, despite its decision-making and budgetary constraints, must fight back by supporting promising local initiatives such as Lucie AI, despite the communication problems which have triggered a wave of criticism.
There is another, resolutely European path, based on independence, agility and pragmatism.
A European third way
In this context, there is a third way, resolutely European, focused on the independence of technology and content, respect for a balanced ethic between AI and humans, and of course data security for our companies. This approach differs from American and Chinese mega-projects by developing AI applications and AI agents that are more targeted, agile and business-oriented, and perfectly suited to the needs of French or European SMEs and ETIs.
In this respect, Nvidia's announcement, during CES 2025 in Las Vegas, of Project DIGITS, a personal AI supercomputer offering colossal computing power at low cost, goes in the direction of greater democratization of AI opening the way to smaller, more specialized and more relevant AI models(SLM) compared to generic LLM models.
Let's not repeat the same "mistakes" when faced with the hegemony of Google or Meta/Facebook in digital marketing, or Amazon in e-commerce! The time has come for European companies to unite around a common vision of AI: independent, agile and pragmatic. Gorillias is committed to being the trusted partner of SMEs in this crucial digital transformation, offering them high-performance AI tools that are secure and respectful of their values.
