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This should probably link to the actual press release since its more of an announcement of something forming rather than a release of any models, code, whitepapers, etc. https://openeurollm.eu/launch-press-release
This is classic EU. An announcement of an effort to collect collaborators to discuss doing something that they might do in the future.
But can I run it on Gaia-X? This really reads like a parody. Press release, “a consortium of 20 research institutions”, “awarded the STEP (Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform) seal”. Lots of grandiose self-congratulations. All with nothing to run, download or try of course.
It’s par for the course for this union. It’s just comical given the very recent political events.
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>This is classic EU. An announcement of an effort to collect collaborators to discuss doing something that they might do in the future. It should be done in secret? How did they manage to create CERN? maybe there was no reddit like people commenting back then?
It probably should not be number 2 on Hacker News, unless Hacker News has a lot of readers who might contribute to this effort
But it obviously does? Maybe not people who "want" but definitely many who "might".
If anything this is one of the better places to advertise, and certainly more interesting than another "Hooli (YC99) is hiring to democratize breathing".
I wish they'd held the press release until there was something to see. There isn't even a hiring link.
--- As someone who is in general skeptical of programs like this (and an European) there are 2 remarkable / timely things about this: - This project doesn't just allocate money to universities or one large company, but includes top research institutions as well as startups and GPU time on supercomputing clusters. The participants are very well connected (e.g. also supported by HF, Together and the likes with European roots) - Deepseek has just shown that you probably can't beat the big labs with these resources, but you can stay sufficient close to the frontier to make a dent.
Europe needs to try this. Will this close the Gap to the US/China? Probably not. But it could be a catalyst for competitive Open source models and partially revitalize AI in Europe. let's see..
PS: on Twitter there was a screenshot yesterday that in a new EU draft, "accelerate" was used six times. Maybe times are changing a little bit.
Disclaimer: Our company is part of this project, so I might be biased. --- I hope the next time this is on HN, it's with some cool release and not a PR :).
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I wish they'd held the press release until there was something to see. There isn't even a hiring link.