Georg Berger

Co-founder @AcademloHQ | Latitud Fellow (LF-0) | Education | AI

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

@MrBeast 2781271

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy… I got something to announce:

We're launching PROTOTYPE: a new fund, fully focused on Europe.

A small fund that punches way above it's size.

With it we back what Europe is world-class at: robotics, automation, manufacturing, and anything that requires hard engineering.

First check. First round. As early as it gets.

Europe invented industry. We're the birthplace of precision manufacturing. The second largest manufacturing hub on the planet. Leaders in automation and robotics.

And yet…

We sell out our best tech to China. We export our best founders & most of our investment money to the US. That's insanity.

What should we do instead?

Build the next trillion euro companies in robotics, manufacturing, automation right here: in Europe. Showcase to young founders what is possible and change the system around them where needed.

What we will do:

→ Publish all our fund updates and build in public: https://t.co/JROaYikB2Y

→ Showcase Europe’s Most Ambitious Startups on Youtube: https://t.co/l3xVkjtbox

→ Launch & support more projects like @euinc_petition. Enough talking about Europe. Time to build it: Startups, makerspaces, student clubs, and much more.

→ And most importantly, invest into the best founders in Europe. Same model as our previous funds that are in their top 1-5% cohorts worldwide.

We won’t do a VC fund in the classic sense.

This will be a community of hyper-ambitious people who want to actively change Europe for the better.

It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent… Let's be crazy.

Check out https://t.co/h2lPmypoaM!

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

Thinking about organizing a Academlo x @Lovable Bootcamp or extended Hackathon.

We've got an active community and 2000+ full-stack grads.

@antonosika interested in teaming up?

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

@Altimor Do you know what he is actually referring to?

[Ev Śniecińska @ewasniecinska]

@levelsio As someone that worked on Horizon projects - it’s the biggest scam I have ever seen up close. 10M euro for „conferences” in 5 star hotels in Mykonos here, 5M for website done in 2 days. Absolute disgrace and made me lose all hope for EU.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 As a European citizen and AI founder, I can apparently use these "AI Factories", so I just signed up to use them!

Every "supercomputer" has an [ ACCESS NOW ] button which made me very excited

I expected to sign up, maybe pay a discounted H100 rate (funded by EU, that'd be nice?) and get a Jypyter notebook, or some SSH login so I can access my GPU like I'd do on @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online

But I celebrated to early, I signed up, confirmed my email, then ended up in a "Supercomputer Access Calls" page, where I had to select from a tedious list of "Call For Proposals" to get access to a GPU

So I could NOT just access a H100 GPU, I have to make sure my project (in this case my business) fits a specific proposal, ok fair

This process was already tedious enough but then when I tried to actually go through with it, it started asking me if I had "Respect for Human Agency?", I do I think, and if I was mindful of "Individual, and Social and Environmental Well-Being?", well I am, right guys??? Right??? The questions didn't stop, just endless pages of this

Look I get what they're doing, they pivoted the classic university "I need to rent a giant computer for my research" to an EU wide thing and then present it as the "European AI plan"

But this isn't really how AI works in production? As a founder in AI, if I wanna do stuff I'd rent a whole bunch H100 GPUs again at @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online and SSH into a box

Or if I want it more simple I run AI models on @FAL, @wavespeed or @replicate which is just an API call or web front end I can click stuff and run a model

The EU has the right intentions here but it's just the wrong execution, this thing will 100% go nowhere, and I'm a born optimist, I want to believe, I'm also a proud European, and I'm in AI a bit and not a complete idiot. There's just better ways to do this

If you really want to have the GPU servers in Europe (which arguably isn't that important), then let me rent a GPU box with SSH access at @Hetzner_Online or @OVHcloud that's hosted in Europe and subsidize that for European citizens and European businesses. I don't even believe in that, but at least that'd make it accessible for Europeans. Now it really isn't?

What's REALLY much more important though if you want to be a part of the AI race and I've posted for years here with @euaccofficial is to make Europe a really extremely attractive place to start and run an AI business. Remove regulatory obstructions and give tax discounts for startups. Let them build a business first that can compete worldwide and once they make enough money (let's say $100M/y), then slowly start adding regulation. Because right now the regulation only benefits the European incumbents, the dinosaur companies, while making it very difficult for European citizens to start new AI companies here.

Which is why we literally have none left.

Anyway, I applied to get my GPU, let's see if I get it!

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

@itsolelehmann Yes. I've been thinking about pivoting a small channel I own to 100% AI content, and 100% automated. Maybe I'll start just with YouTube shorts.

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

@Amaury__Allard @itsolelehmann Not in CDMX. But lived there for a few years. Great city.
Nothing wrong with Mexico. Have been living here for 10 years. But want to move back for a variety of reasons.

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

@JoschuaBuilds Amazing. Are you now based in Chiang Mai?

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

@itsolelehmann Check out Mastery by Robert Greene. Talks about this concept called Life's Task. Might help.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Maybe this could be @paulg's second act after building Y Combinator which is responsible for so many unicorns

@paulg, born a Brit, now living in the UK (we can still classify it as Europe), would be the person who could save Europe's tech scene

Give him a "startup free pass" and let him start a project to fund European startups within a special low regulation and low tax framework

EU Combinator or whatever you want to call it

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

@rork Amazing. Would like to try it out!

[Michel Lieben @MichLieben]

Elon Musk: "Grok 4 is PhD level in every subject."

Bold claim.

So I created 4 ACTUAL impossible tests and tested Grok against ALL major models.

Grok didn't just FAIL. It HALLUCINATED an entire PhD thesis.

Only ONE model scored 4/4

The results will surprise you🧵⬇️

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

@andreasklinger 🫡

[Anton Osika @antonosika]

Lovable just crossed $60M ARR, with growth up 50% since last week!

We’re just focusing on building the best product we can – with a small team in Europe.

There’s so much more to do. Thanks to everyone cheering us on.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

Wooop! Episode 3 of Europe's Most Ambitious Startup is here!! 🇪🇺🔥

This time, I am visiting a company in Berlin that's hell-bend to become the world's #1 inventor of modern materials using robotic labs and AI.

Their first mission?
Tackle climate change by generating better catalysts used for pretty much every important process towards net-zero. But ultimately the sky is the limit and even materials in your future phones might be based on top of their discovery.

We go live inside their office and lab and see what they do. How it works and talk with their founder Alex and Marcus how they plan to 200x the world's output in material discovery!

Dunia AI – Europe's Most Ambitious Startup – Episode now live on Youtube

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[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

The world's most intelligent robot isn't from Boston Dynamics or Tesla.

It's from a German startup you've never heard of.

While Silicon Valley makes demo videos, they've quietly secured €1B in orders.

How NEURA Robotics is leading the robot revolution from Europe 🧵:

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

@Dead_Po0L_ Te escribo por DM.
Nuestra próxima generación empieza el 30 de agosto.

[Georg Berger @thegeorgberger]

I think @dunkhippo33 should turn all her Twitter threads into mini podcast episodes similar to @naval's Spearhead podcast. 🙏