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 entrust 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 we need more capital to make that happen,” added Von Der Leyen. 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.”
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