A lot of people are talking about the EU's €1B AI Strategy. Here's what they're missing: the shift to specialised models isn't new policy. It's validation of what already works.
At Straker, we've been training and testing specialised translation models for a couple of industry verticals. The pattern is clear:
- General-purpose models: fast, flexible, unreliable for domain expertise
- Specialised models: slower to train, expensive to maintain, actually deployable
The EU explicitly identifies "specialised, smaller models that excel in specific domains" as critical to their strategy. They're not guessing. They're observing what enterprises actually adopt.
The companies that will successfully implement AI aren't the ones with the biggest models. They're the ones who know exactly which problems need specialised solutions.
The EU just bet €1B on this. At Straker, we've been betting on it for the last couple of years.
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