HP is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its center of excellence in Barcelona and highlighting the importance of the campus as a “global reference” and has announced the launch of the HP AI Innovation Hub, “a global reference axis in innovation with artificial intelligence”.
«Barcelona represents much more than a strategic location for HP; It is the place where our history of innovation in Spain began and where today we continue to build the future»commented Daniel Martínez, director of the HP Barcelona International Center, the company’s largest R&D hub outside the United States.
In the center of excellence of Barcelona they work 2,600 employees of 60 nationalities and a team of more than 800 engineers that develops R&D in key areas for the company, including digital transformation or 3D printing. And now AI.
HP AI Innovation Hub: first global hub for AI
The HP AI Innovation Hub will mark “a new era of innovation” with a commitment marked by the development of artificial intelligence technologies, an absolute key in current technology and as a growth engine for any company. More than 200 professionals from fourteen business units They will work in collaboration with universities, technology centers and local and international partners.
The new hub will be HP’s first global reference center for artificial intelligence developmentwhich shows the importance of the center of Barcelona, as highlighted by Helena Herrero, president of HP for Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa: «This was full of farms, and it has become the Silicon Valley of Sant Cugat».
HP executives have highlighted in the celebration of the 40th anniversary of its creation the importance of a center that “has contributed to the technological development of this country and has put HP Spain on the world map”. Its importance has been such that the current global CEO of HP, Enrique Lores, began working at HP in its Barcelona center: “Not only is it the most important center outside the United States, it is one of the most important centers in the world”repress.
Regarding the specific functions of the HP AI Innovation Hub, they are framed development of conversational AI, machine learning and large languages solutions LLM for HP computers around the world. «We are writing a new chapter that responds to the needs of the world we are in, a world in which AI and technologies will coexist with each other»commented the president of HP for Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Spanish Helena Herrero.
