Europe should follow China’s AI diffusion model

The global debate over artificial intelligence has been dominated by an arms-race mentality focused on the technological frontier. The United States and Silicon Valley measure success through ever-larger language models, computing power and the pursuit of artificial general intelligence. China, however, is quietly developing a different strategy. Rather than competing exclusively to build the world’s most advanced generative model, Beijing is treating AI as a basic input of production, concentrating on its mass adoption across industry, logistics and distribution. For Europe, caught between American innovation and Asian scale – and frequentl…