I think what we are also lacking is EU-wide incentive to develop this sector, including regulations to ease the burden of collecting training data for those models.
And it doesn’t help also that salaries in this area are much lower, so the top talent is in most of the cases lured by a lot higher remuneration packages to migrate and continue their work there.
I think the West is underestimating China and India and they will play a major role in the AI revolution.