In mid-2024, this tone had moved when Von Der Leyen asked for a second term and promised to tackle the problems which could retain the growth of the EU, as an administrative formalities.
Europe was already leading in AI security, has argued Von Der Leyen: “We must now focus our efforts on becoming a world leader in AI innovation.” This work was entrusted to the new technological boss of the commission, Henné Virkkunen of Finland.
It is a heavy challenge. The United States is home to most of the main providers of AI models, such as the OPENAI GPT series, Google Gemini and Claude d’Anthropic. It also hosts the largest cloud suppliers in the world – Amazon, Microsoft and Google – and Giant Giant Nvidia.
European companies were very slow to use technology, with only 13% of them having adopted AI.
Virkkunen, barely two months of work, tried to correct this course.
To begin with, it announced an investment of 1.5 billion euros in seven optimized supervisors in AI, half of this amount funded by the EU. Supercalculators should help European AI startups with chatgpt training competitors.
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