Esperto di IA su 1,5 miliardi di euro per le fabbriche europee di IA: “Non abbastanza per competere con gli Stati Uniti”
https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/ai-expert-on-15-billion-for-european-ai-factories-not-enough-to-compete-with-us
di m71nu
Esperto di IA su 1,5 miliardi di euro per le fabbriche europee di IA: “Non abbastanza per competere con gli Stati Uniti”
https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/ai-expert-on-15-billion-for-european-ai-factories-not-enough-to-compete-with-us
di m71nu
12 commenti
In other news: the guy receiving money says he didn’t get enough. More at 10.
You have to scale up gradually but its true its not enough to compete with the likes of USA and China right now. It has nothing to do with funding, its just the startup culture is not on par.
US and China are the biggest AI investors, afaik
But who will pass the red line in AI development first?
Denmark spent €100 million on a sovereign AI supercomputer:
[https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/denmark-sovereign-ai-supercomputer/](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/denmark-sovereign-ai-supercomputer/)
“Show AI the moneeeyyyy!” is what they’re saying.
>“€1.5 billion sounds like a huge amount at first glance, but if you divide it over seven projects it’s not too bad in proportion.” Microsoft recently invested [€4 billion](https://datanews.knack.be/nieuws/business-it/cloud-datacenters/microsoft-investeert-4-miljard-euro-in-frankrijk/#:~:text=Techgigant%20Microsoft%20gaat%204%20miljard,cloud%20in%20het%20land%20versterken.) in French cloud and AI projects…
For context, the EU sends [Hungary](https://www.dw.com/en/eu-releases-funds-to-hungary-in-controversial-move/a-68014763) billions of euros that keeps Orban in power even as he keeps undermining the EU.
Yet the figures needed, given what the EU spends on other things, aren’t that monumentally huge given AI’s massive impact is on the present and the future.
>Between 2018 and 2020, AI investment in the EU [increased](https://www.eca.europa.eu/nl/publications/sr-2024-08#:~:text=De%20AI%2Dinvesteringen%20in%20de,publieke%20als%20de%20particuliere%20sector.). Yet the gap between the US and EU [more than doubled](https://www.eca.europa.eu/nl/publications/sr-2024-08#:~:text=De%20AI%2Dinvesteringen%20in%20de,publieke%20als%20de%20particuliere%20sector.) over the same period ([€10](https://datanews.knack.be/nieuws/business-it/cloud-datacenters/microsoft-investeert-4-miljard-euro-in-frankrijk/#:~:text=Techgigant%20Microsoft%20gaat%204%20miljard,cloud%20in%20het%20land%20versterken.).7 billion EU, vs. [€21](https://datanews.knack.be/nieuws/business-it/cloud-datacenters/microsoft-investeert-4-miljard-euro-in-frankrijk/#:~:text=Techgigant%20Microsoft%20gaat%204%20miljard,cloud%20in%20het%20land%20versterken.).1 billion US), in both the public and private sectors.
Investments will only keep growing but the EU needs to show AI the money if it wants to keep up not only with the US but also China, which is pouring in huge state resources into AI.
The AI bubble is going to pop and I hope Europe isn’t holding the bill.
As someone how is forced to use it at work, its crap… Of almost no help if the stuff it generates needs to be reviewed for errors and updated to how simple documents need to look like.
Europe will out compete the US in a couple of years not by investing but by virtue of the idiocracy of America.
I mean, start looking for investors? Not like US AI companies are fully funded by the government. You guys want everything paid and done for, so you can take fat bonuses at the end of the year without doing jack shit. Fuck off, earn your money.
Pouring money will accomplish shit if we don’t deregulate the AI – let companies cook and we will be good.
People are talking about the gap in AI but, the gap is reversed if you look at research
Europe produces about 30% more AI research than the US, we are clearly innovative, it’s just that our financial environment is slower to take risks, even if our brains think just as good
BTW China publishes twice as much (we are talking only high impact high quality papers, so no “paper mills”) as the US and yet the US still wins on investment
It’s simply that the US is very well positioned to reap the research of others in their venture capital start-ups
Here’s the messed up part. Nearly all of that 1.5 billion will go straight to American companies.
What is even an “ai factory”? Lmao the EU is sounding more and more like the committee driven Soviet Union.