The EuroMakers Journal
European software,up close.
Deep dives into products made in Europe, stories from the makers behind them and guides you can use today.
Mistral's open weights exclude the host
Mistral released the trillion-parameter Large 4 weights on 29 October under a licence it invented: a modified MIT that lets you do almost anything except sell inference on it. Read the carve-outs. They are Mistral's business model written as a licence.
Powens, publish the recovery rate
Powens says engineers directly approve half its AI-proposed connector fixes. A useful number. But approval is not the same as getting a broken bank connection back online.
Daytona archived the repo that made it
The Croatian-rooted sandbox company raised $60 million at a $1 billion valuation on 20 October. The 71,000-star open-source repo that built its name went private in June. Both things are on the record.
Ographis saves the map job, not just the map
Magnus Nilsson’s new desktop GIS preview puts the visual workflow and the command-line run in the same file. That is more interesting than another way to draw buildings.
Supportifier answers only what you reviewed
Supportifier, a Swedish helpdesk from Successifier AB in Älta, inverts the usual support-AI deal: its agents answer only what your team has already reviewed, and say so when the source has no answer. The price floor is SEK 79,000 a year, quoted per arrangement — the knowledge work is billed as the product, not the seats.
Paddle cut its MCP server to three tools
Paddle, the London merchant of record, launched its AI Toolkit on 20 October: MCP servers that let an agent build pricing, run test checkouts and move a catalogue from sandbox to live. The interesting part is what they took away. A server that once exposed more than eighty tools now exposes three — search, execute, and a way to complain.