If you can find any European university without an AI lab, I'd like to see some names. Meanwhile we have places/initiatives like this, making open models https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/research/research-fields/inform....

Fragmentation isn't really there in science and development, fragmented financing (basically the main point I'll cede) is being worked on, and markets will always have to deal with European diversity; we're not all going to speak English tomorrow and eat the same, dress the same, etc.