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I recall a post on HN a while back about the EU planning to invest billions in AI. I can't find the HN link but found this source: "annual investment volume of
by olalonde 3y ago
I recall a post on HN a while back about the EU planning to invest billions in AI. I can't find the HN link but found this source: "annual investment volume of €20 billion over the course of the digital decade"[0]. I wonder what happened with that money. It seems like using it to train large scale models would be a relatively effective use of that money.
[0] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-approach-artificial-intelligence https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-a...
- outside1234 3y ago[flagged]
- dopidopHN 3y agoOr train phd that ultimately decide to get a 300k offer over a 40k one. Look around and see who has a German, Spanish, French, Romanian accents..
- refulgentis 3y agoIt's looking for projects like this, so you end up with silly things like the University of Turku announcing it's powerhouse of LLM expertise (?) will train the "largest open model" in a consortium with (??). The only concrete factual detail is they'll train on euro-focused data