Open AI closes the gap as Europe bets on sovereignty and infrastructure
Tech.eu Cate Lawrence
Mozilla’s State of Open Source AI report says open-source and open-weight AI has moved from experimentation to production use, with Europe gaining ground mainly in deployment and infrastructure. On Hugging Face, it cites 2.5 million public models and 13 million users, and on OpenRouter open-weight models grew to about a third of usage by late 2025. Europe is pushed to focus on tooling, orchestration, compliance, and sovereignty efforts (including UK plans like a £500M program) rather than only chasing frontier model capability.
Why it matters
Mozilla’s latest State of Open Source AI report argues that open-source and open-weight AI have moved beyond experimentation and become a significant part of the global AI ecosystem, driven by rapidly...