> Just hosting it in the EU and promising not to retain / sell the data let's you charge a healthy extra and compete in many areas other players can't.
It's been a few years. Has anyone done this successfully yet?
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There are a over a dozen EU open-weight providers. I’m not sure if they are even charging that much of an extra. EU-based clients have little reason to use non-EU inference providers.
> EU-based clients have little reason to use non-EU inference providers.
Which models are most popular in Europe?
I don’t have user statistics but my mail/domain registrar Infomaniak advertises Qwen 3.5 and Apertus, “a Swiss open-source AI model, developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS”
melious.ai comes to mind.