EU awards €1B and 8 million supercomputing hours to 4 AI startups

The EU’s supercomputer alliance yesterday announced the winners of its AI startup competition. Four companies will split €1bn — 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, as part of its deal with OpenAI, Microsoft built Eagle, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, for its new investment. Elon Musk is on track to build a massive Nvidia-based supercomputer for xAI...