I don't know about you, but six months into this project my internet bubble is suddenly all about EU alternatives to Big Tech. Here I collect all the alternatives that I see.
On AI, Herbert Bruderer wrote an interesting article on Apertus, Switzerland’s first large-scale open, multilingual language model, developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). As all things computers in Europe, it has not reached a commercial stage yet, but you can give it a try
Here are other software / platform that I was advertised online. I will try and check them out for the introduction to the book!