“Possiamo iniziare ad addestrare i nostri modelli in due mesi”: L’esercito francese inaugura il suo supercomputer AI a Fort Mont Valérien

>The Minister of the Armed Forces inaugurated the brand new supercomputer dedicated to defense artificial intelligence in the Paris region. According to Sébastien Lecornu, it is the first tool of its kind in Europe to process classified, and therefore secret, data.

>The Minister of the Armed Forces inaugurated the brand new supercomputer dedicated to defense artificial intelligence in the Paris region. According to Sébastien Lecornu, it is the first tool of its kind in Europe to process classified, and therefore secret, data.

>France now has the means to build its own defense “ChatGPT.” The project has been successfully completed. In eighteen months, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, created an agency dedicated to artificial intelligence for defense, L’Amiad, and equipped it with a brand new supercomputer.

>This Thursday, Sébastien Lecornu inaugurated this supercomputer, which was delivered in record time at the end of August to Mont Valérien in Suresnes. The tender was won last year by a consortium of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Orange, in competition with Atos. The award of this contract caused some ripples, with some MPs concerned about the sovereignty conditions.

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>**More than 1,000 latest-generation GPUs**

>Yet, France has never made such a sovereign investment, argued the Minister of the Armed Forces. “As with the atom at the end of the First World War, France must be among the world’s leading countries in defense AI, which will revolutionize the battlefield,” the minister emphasized. The supercomputer, named Asgard, cost €125 million and is, according to the ministry, the first supercomputer in Europe dedicated to classified AI and the third in the world.France now has the means to build its own defense “ChatGPT.” The project has been successfully completed. In eighteen months, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, created an agency dedicated to artificial intelligence for defense, Amiad, and equipped it with a brand new supercomputer.

>This Thursday, Sébastien Lecornu inaugurated this supercomputer, which was delivered in record time at the end of August to Mont Valérien in Suresnes. The tender was won last year by a consortium of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Orange, in competition with Atos. The award of this contract caused some ripples, with some MPs concerned about the sovereignty conditions.
More than 1,000 latest-generation GPUs

>Yet, France has never made such a sovereign investment, argued the Minister of the Armed Forces. “As with the atom at the end of the First World War, France must be among the world’s leading countries in defense AI, which will revolutionize the battlefield,” the minister emphasized. The supercomputer, named Asgard, cost €125 million and is, according to the ministry, the first supercomputer in Europe dedicated to classified AI and the third in the world.

>The supercomputer installation almost collapsed at the last minute when it came to transporting containers equipped with Nvidia’s latest GPU chips through the narrow entrance of the fort, built in 1862 under Napoleon III. The delivery was just inches away. Now, the fort, which specializes in communications, houses not only the Army’s last dovecote but also a computing beast with more than 1,000 latest-generation GPUs. When running at 100%, it will consume 1.8 megawatts of energy.

>The supercomputer installation almost collapsed at the last minute when it came to transporting containers equipped with Nvidia’s latest GPU chips through the narrow entrance of the fort, built in 1862 under Napoleon III. The delivery was just inches away. Now, the fort, which specializes in communications, houses not only the Army’s last dovecote but also a computing beast with more than 1,000 latest-generation GPUs. When running at 100%, it will consume 1.8 megawatts of energy.

Interesting move by France. I wonder how much of this will be focused on defense vs. broader AI research.

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why are the French just Winning at the moment with war preparedness

Hello Titan, I’m sure we’re going to get along *great*

We really live in the worst timeline.