CERN for AI may be the EU’s ‘last chance’ to gain on foreign competition

With the EU lagging behind the US and China on artificial intelligence, the idea of a CERN for AI has been gaining traction — even reaching the high ranks of the European Commission. “I will propose to set up a European AI Research Council where we can pool all of our resources, similar to the approach taken with CERN,” Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in July. The concept still remains at a proposal level and details are scarce. But according to a Belgium-based think tank, the idea...