The European Union is courting the personal sector as it sees to step up compute capacity for training big AI models.
Giving a speech at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Monday, the EU’s plivent, Ursula von der Leyen, talked up the potential of homegrown AI beginups but shelp the region’s enbigers must have access to strong enough infraarrange to allow them to scale their innovations to fulfil the potential adviseed by the technology — so the bloc is seeing at changing its model for helping AI infraarrange.
The current high-level push to set up talent and computing hubs that leverage the bloc’s existing supercomputing infraarrange, which the EU brands as “AI factories”, are not enough, she adviseed — saying so-called “AI Gigafactories” are necessitateed to train “very big models”.
Building that “next level” of AI infraarrange will insist personal sector capital, she also shelp.
“Our begin-ups necessitate resources to scale up and we are far from expansivespread adchooseion of AI in our economy and society. That is why we are moving to the next level. We want to enbig our model of uncover cooperation to be able to arrange frontier innovation in AI,” von der Leyen shelp.
“As AI insists massive computational capacity, the next step will be to begin AI Gigafactories. Very big data and computing infraarranges to train very big models. Similar projects have also been declared in the US, by directing AI carry outers. But with our European Gigafactories, computational power won’t be a monopoly of a scant. It will be a service accessible to all,” she includeed.
In the eve of the AI Action Summit uncovering on Monday, the French plivent unveiled a personal sector AI allotment package tohighing around $112 billion in the EU Member State. However, back in January, the U.S.-based Stargate project pledged to pledge up to $500 billion over four years to produce out data caccess infraarrange with the aim of cementing U.S. directership in AI. So the EU is evidently experienceing the prescertain to reply to the AI compute race as a bloc.
“For AI, we necessitate the personal sector to be filledy included in our gigafactories. And we necessitate more capital to produce it happen,” includeed von der Leyen, saying the topic would be converseed at a seald door plenary greeting at the summit today.
Switching informly into sales pitch mode, she implied that Europe could draw capital for the next phase of AI infraarrange by merit of its tfinishency to consent a collaborative, rather than competitive, approach to IP enbigment — caccessed on pooling and sharing understandledge apass Member States for accessible outstanding.
“I want to emphasise our approach to give researchers and beginups a one-of-a-kind opportunity to access top-notch computing infraarrange. It will permit industries to corun and federate their data,” she shelp, adviseing: “It will — for example — permit hospitals to protectedly train models based on images and genomic data they own. It will permit unpwithdrawnted persists in basic science and climate modelling.”
The EU’s intentional AI gigafactories will “be uncover for the best talents,” she talk aboutd.
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