EU opens call for seven 'gigafactories' to train next-generation AI

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kingleopold•about 1 hour ago

Funny total amounts they talk about. Europe lost it, enjoy being behind AI, I guess? First they decided to lose big in Energy and now this.

In few years or decade they will blame some other wrong decision probably.

gpugreg•about 1 hour ago

    Brussels is set to contribute roughly €5 billion, matched by another €5 billion from European governments, alongside around €20 billion in private investment.

You can train a model like DeepSeek-V4-Pro with around $2 billion. The current funding is certainly not enough to get ahead in AI, but it is sufficient to get independence in case the open models should dry up suddenly.

sylware•33 minutes ago

With EU manufactured chips?

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