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Can someone at the EU, the only player in this thing with no strategy yet just pool together enough resources so the open-source people can train models. We don't ask much, just give compute power

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No, that could risk public money benefitting a private party.

Feel free to form a multinational consortium and submit a grant application to one of our distribution partners under the Horizon program though.

Now, how do you plan to create jobs and reduce CO2?

Yes, there are a bunch of government-funded supercomputers or clusters which can be obtained for public research needs (based on an evaluation of which projects are likely to bring the most benefit), and are used, among other things, to train large language models. E.g. some interesting Swedish models got trained on https://www.nsc.liu.se/systems/berzelius/ .

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