At the Summit of Action on Artificial Intelligence (AI) held in Paris, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the launch of Investai, an initiative to mobilize 200,000 million euros For investments in AI, including a new European fund of 20,000 million euros for Great Supercomputación Clusts of which the president called “gigafabrica of AI.”
Europe needs to maintain rhythm in an increasingly aggressive global market and updating emerging technologies such as AI. And all balancing data protection frames and advancing plans to boost innovation and competitiveness without abandoning sustainability.
Although solutions such as Deepseeek have shown that more economical and efficient models can be achieved, the commission believes that Large infrastructure of AIs are essential To allow the open and collaborative development of the most complex AI models and to make Europe «A continent of Ia».
Therefore, the EU investment fund will finance four future “Gigafabrica de AI” throughout the EU. The systems will be designed to train the “Most complex and large models” and will be equipped with around 100,000 last generation AI chips.
«IA will improve our health care, stimulate our research and innovation and increase our competitiveness. We want AI to be a positive and growth force. We are doing it through our own European approach, based on opening, cooperation and excellent talent. But our approach still needs to be enhanced »explained von der Leyen.
«Therefore, together with our Member States and our partners, We will mobilize an unprecedented capital through Investai for European gigaphhas of AI. This unique public-private association, similar to a CERN for AI, will allow all our scientists and companies, not only to the largest, developing the most advanced large models necessary to make Europe a continent of AI »said the president.
Incestai’s initial financing will come from EU financing programs already existing with digital components, such as the Europe Digital Program, Europe Horizon and Investu. Member States may also contribute financing in a IA gigaphhabic program that will double the number of centers and financing announced in December and where the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre It will be one of the key nodes since the Marenostrum 5 supercomputer will become another “AI factory.”
