Germany is also launching a data protection inquiry around chat GPT. The UK will spend 100 million pounds to develop its own sovereign AI. This is on top of another roughly 900 million pounds or 1.1 billion dollars that is in the UK budget already to deal with supercomputer and AI research issues.
Yesterday ChatGPT announced a number of important updates, including a privacy preserving mode that doesn't record chat history (and doesn't train OpenAI models on chat history) as well as a forthcoming business offering. Many think that the moves are at least in part response to European scrutiny around GDPR compliance. Also yesterday, AI platform HuggingFace announced HuggingChat, an open source ChatGPT competitor.