Comment by _fizz_buzz_

> 2. Talent & compute: due to #1, Silicon Valley can outbid Europe for the best talent and hardware. Watch an OpenAI launch video and listen to all the European accents.

There is definitely a lot of truth to that. Maybe a bit of an arbitrary measure, but these are the nationalites of the people that wrote the "Attention is all you need" paper. Pretty revealing I find:

Ashish Vaswani: India

Niki Parmar: India

Jakob Uszkoreit: Germany

Llion Jones: Wales (UK)

Aidan Gomez: Canada

Łukasz Kaiser: Poland

Illia Polosukhin: Ukraine

Noam Shazeer: USA