Embracing open source. Making Europe the leading Continent for trustworthy AI.
President @vonderleyen announced the world’s largest public-private partnership for trustworthy AI development - a total of €200 billion investment
It includes €20 billion for AI gigafactories providing Europeans with the computational power needed to propel Europe to the forefront of AI.
We will lead the race by using our industrial strengths, collaborative spirit, and open source.
@EUCommission great! now we only need consumers who want this at all!
@lritter @EUCommission Do cancer researchers or other scientists count? I'd be genuinely curious to know if especially people involved in biochem, astrophysics, climate scientists, medical researchers are interested in AI that's *not* LLM slop? I don't have the expertise to know whether AI is relevant to them (cancer researchers seem excited?) But I do know that the trope: "EU has no tech because it has no social media disinformation machines" is BS. So is this AI=LLM also a lazy shortcut?
@Mnemosinee @lritter @EUCommission Various kinds of scientific AI likely do count. It would be incredibly stupid to spend all that money solely on LLMs. I didn't even consider that it could be a thing.
@elgregor @lritter @EUCommission Thank you. 150 billions of this is VC silly money. The one topic where I do have plenty of experience compared to most people in this thread is the Commission's...creative funding announcements. Most Europeans think the Commission is all powerful and can just dole out billions by snapping its fingers like that. They should ask Mistral's Le Chat what each European contributes to the 🇪🇺 budget (price of a petrol station coffee cup) and who runs the EU (not the EC).