The EU’s supercomputer alliance yesterday announced the winners of its AI startup competition. Four companies will split €1mn — and precious uptime on world-class high-performance computer systems to train their models. Training and running AI requires massive amounts of computational resources. For example, Microsoft built Eagle, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, for its new investment OpenAI. Elon Musk is on track to build a massive Nvidia-based supercomputer for xAI, his new artificial intelligence startup. It is no secret that the EU has been pushing hard for what it calls “digital sovereignty.” Fearful of once again of being left…
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