In AI, time is measured in model releases: GPT-3, 3.5, 4, 4.5 — each arrives like a new season of a Netflix show. Except, in the EU, we’re sometimes half a season behind. In operating my own AI business, two seemingly small setbacks — the postponement of ChatGPT’s memory feature and Meta’s geo-fencing of its Llama 4 model — illustrate what those lags mean for startups in Europe and in Ireland. I had a maths teacher in secondary school who would remark how “a short pencil is better than a long memory”. Recently, ChatGPT reincarnated this pencil in its modern…

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