Commission selects EUROPA consortium to build a European open-source frontier AI model in all 24 EU languages

My take: This is about independence, not just technology. Europe got tired of depending on AI built in the US or China, and picked the EUROPA consortium to build its own: open source (free to use and modify) and in the EU's 24 languages, Spanish included. Why do I care? Two things: 'open' means a small business or a school could use it without paying a giant, and more models that truly understand Spanish is huge news for those of us who create in our language (me included). We will see if they can really compete, but the direction is right. That's my opinion, of course.