The European Union is courting the private sector as it appears to enhance its computing power to train large-scale AI models.
Speaking at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Monday, EU President Ursula von Der Leyen spoke about the potential of homemade AI startups, but developers in the region will expand innovation He said that he needs to have access to enough strong infrastructure to do so. As it meets the possibilities that technology offers, Block is considering changing its models to support AI infrastructure.
She suggests that the current high-level push to talent and computing hubs that leverage BLOC’s existing supercomputing infrastructure, which the EU brand considers as an “AI factory” is not enough. “A very large model.”
She said private sector capital would be needed to build the “next level” of AI infrastructure.
“Our startups need the resources to scale up and we are far from wide adoption of AI in the economy and society. That’s what has moved us to the next level. That’s why. We want to expand our model of open cooperation so that we can host frontier innovations with AI,” von der Reyen said.
“AI requires large computing power, so the next step is to launch AI GigaFactories. Very large data and computing infrastructure train very large models. Similar projects also include In the US, it has been announced by major AI players. However, in the European Giga Factory, calculation power will not become a monopoly for a few people. It will be a service that everyone can access,” she adds. I did.
On the eve of the AI Action Summit held on Monday, the French president announced a private sector AI investment package totaling around $112 billion in EU countries. However, in January, the US-based Stargate project promised to win up to $500 billion over four years with the aim of solidifying US leadership in AI. Therefore, the EU clearly feels pressure to respond to AI calculation races as blocks.
“In the case of AI, we need a private sector that is fully involved in our gigafactie, and Von Der Leyen said the topic will be discussed at the closing door plenary meeting at today’s summit.
Temporarily switching to sales pitch mode, she said she would benefit from Europe’s tendency to take a collaborative approach rather than a competitive approach to IP development, thus ensuring capital is at the next stage of AI infrastructure. It implied that it could be attracted. Public good.
“I would like to highlight an approach to providing researchers and startups with a unique opportunity to access top-class computing infrastructure, which allows industries to collaborate and integrate data,” she said. said. It enables unprecedented advances in basic science and climate modeling. ”
She insisted that the EU’s planned AI GigaFactories is “open for the best talent.”
20 billion euros to accelerate AI adoption
Separately, in a follow-up statement at the summit on Tuesday, von der Reyen announced that the EU will win a chip at 50 billion euros for AI investments. Banner: A coalition of private companies organised under the EU AI champion.
The AI race is just beginning.
Building on the European AI Champions initiative, I’m glad to announce InvestAI 🇪🇺
We aim to mobilise €200 billion in AI investments in Europe ↓ https://t.co/PaLTUDsVpm
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) February 11, 2025
“We welcome the European AI Champions initiative, pledging 150 billion euros from providers, investors and industry. And today we can announce that our Investai initiative will be able to replenish 50 billion euros,” she told Conference Delegates I spoke. “This aims to mobilize a total of 200 billion euros for AI investments in Europe.”
“We will focus on industrial and mission-critical applications. It will become the world’s largest public-private partnership for the development of reliable AI,” she added.
The report was updated with additional announcements by Von Der Leyen at AI Action Summit on Tuesday
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