Markus Allen 🇺🇸

Does Europe still want to play any role in the AI race? Does it still have the will to build what it takes? Not simply talk about it, or simply regulate it. But build. Compete at the frontier. Take the risks, make the investments, and do the difficult things that leadership actually demands. Today, access to frontier AI still comes with painful tradeoffs. Costs that compound with every user. Latency that slows down products. Compute concentrated in a handful of providers. And too little control over where intelligence runs and where data lives. Why should building with the world’s best intelligence mean accepting these constraints? We don’t think it should. That’s why we’re building alpha.sh. Open models. Exceptional performance. Radically lower costs. Sovereign infrastructure. All accessible through one API. Europe has an extraordinary history of discovery. Of people who questioned what everyone else accepted, built what didn’t exist, and changed what the world believed possible. Is that spirit of discovery, invention, and ambition still alive today? Because in this new age, infrastructure is more than compute, networks, and data centers. It’s what gives a small team with an extraordinary idea a fighting chance against the largest companies in the world. It’s what turns the world’s best intelligence into new products, businesses, scientific discoveries, and capabilities that matter. It’s also what gives our businesses and institutions the ability to remain resilient, independent, and in control as intelligence becomes critical to everything they do. Europe needs this infrastructure. And it needs companies willing to put it to work. More founders building at the frontier. More businesses adopting the best models, testing their limits, and turning new capabilities into real advantages. More infrastructure built here, serving the world. Build something that wouldn’t have been possible yesterday. The models are here. The talent is here. The opportunity is here. What are we waiting for? alpha.sh/blog/introducing-al…

JUST IN. MULTIVERSX UNLOCKS POST-QUANTUM SECURITY FOUNDATIONS Security is entering a fundamentally new era. I've written about the accelerating threat landscape, and why formal methods are approaching a golden age. Mathematical guarantees are becoming necessities, not luxuries. Quantum computing adds another existential dimension to this reality. The stakes are extraordinary. Cryptography underpins trillions in financial transactions, the digital identities of billions, and the critical infrastructure on which modern civilization depends. Banks. Governments. Financial markets. Global communication networks. Virtually every institution on earth rests its security guarantees on this single safety-critical layer. If this breaks, everything built on it breaks with it. And the threshold for breaking these guarantees is falling faster than expected. Consider that in March, Google Quantum AI published a striking finding: the estimated quantum computing resources required to break 256-bit elliptic-curve cryptography had fallen by roughly 20-fold. From millions of physical qubits to fewer than 500,000, with attacks potentially executable in minutes on sufficiently advanced machines. A non-trivial shift in the engineering assumptions underlying digital security. And one that doesn't account for future breakthroughs in mathematics, algorithms, or hardware. The implication is substiatial. The window to prepare may be shorter than the time required to make the transition. This is why the transition cannot begin when the threat arrives. It must begin years before. Today, MultiversX takes an important step toward that future, laying the cryptographic foundations for accounts to migrate toward post-quantum security. A deliberate engineering path to close the gap between the security the world relies on today, and the security it will need tomorrow. All this must be engineered today. With urgency and intention.