Summary
Janae Teer moderates a discussion on whether Europe and the UAE can build sovereign AI stacks across energy, chips, infrastructure, models, and applications. Fabrizio del Maffeo argues Europe must create more AI value rather than just buy services, while Mehdi Gassassi emphasizes selective sovereignty, using strengths like UAE compute, capital, and government adoption mandates.
Key Topics
5 key topics from Fabrizio Del Maffeo, Mehdi Ghissassi and Gené Teare at HumanX Amsterdam 2026. Thicker branches were mentioned more often in the talk.
Can Europe and the Middle East Build Their Own AI Stack?
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Key Takeaways
- Prioritize value creation over simply purchasing AI services.
- Build sovereignty selectively; do not try to own every stack layer.
- Match AI models to specific use cases and modalities.
- Use government procurement to create startup demand flywheels.
- Invest where regional strengths already exist, from compute to applications.
“The problem is that we have to create value instead of just paying for a service.”
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