Germany, India, And Applied AI – Analysis Mark Carney’s line—middle powers must sit at the table or they are on the menu—is tested on AI. The U.S. and China own frontier models (2024: 40 notable U.S. models, 15 Chinese, 3 European). The opening, the author says, is downstream: cheap open-weight models have closed much of the mid-range gap (one cited gap 8% → 1.7% in a year; GPT-3.5-level inference cost down ~280×).
Pairing: Germany as anchor (proprietary factory data, Mittelstand processes, EU standards, high robot density) and India as scale (AI talent, low-cost engineering, Aadhaar/UPI deployment instinct, IndiaAI Mission, a billion-person market). Neither owns leading chips, Japanese robot gears, or Chinese magnets—but that is not where applied-AI value is made.
Four frictions: India’s one-size public rails vs Germany’s bespoke plants; https://www.eurasiareview.com/08092026-the-anchor-and-the-scale-germany-india-and-applied-ai-analysis/
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