Europe Builds AI Centers: France Requests $10 Billion
A French consortium led by Scaleway has applied for $10 billion to build an AI gigafactory. Its partners include Hugging Face, Mistral, GENCI, Inria, Eviden and SiPearl. France is competing with Spain, Germany and the Netherlands for investment in one of five high-capacity European artificial intelligence centers. The project is part of the EU's ambitious plan to strengthen its technological independence.
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A consortium of French companies led by Scaleway has applied for roughly $10 billion to build one of the five high-capacity artificial intelligence centers planned by the European Union. These gigafactories are mega-infrastructure projects meant to strengthen the EU's technological independence from the US and China in developing and training advanced AI models.
What is an AI gigafactory?
It is a mega-infrastructure center for developing and training advanced artificial intelligence models. The European Union plans to build five such centers to achieve technological independence.
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