Chinese companies are releasing open-weights models, that, while not as good as the proprietary offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, they are perhaps, like MP3, good enough.
And there are European companies serving up these models as a service. Mistral recently announced they will be hosting models other than their own. Hetzner is experimenting . And then there is a company in Berlin I never heard of, https://lyceum.technology which offers inference as a service.