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Europe is clearly accelerating, opening a new chapter of innovation, collaboration and technological leadership. Countries such as Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Poland and Slovenia have just been selected to join the pioneering group of countries where state-of-the-art artificial intelligence factories will be built. This is the next step in the ambitious Invest AI initiative announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the prestigious AI Action Summit in Paris.

Total support for the project is 485 million euros, provided by national and European Union funds, and the program is expected to mobilize up to 200 billion euros of investment in the development of artificial intelligence on the continent, reads the EC website: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/second-wave-ai-factories-set-drive-eu-wide-innovation

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AI Factories will become key innovation hubs, providing unique collaboration opportunities for start-ups, small and medium-sized technology companies and research teams. The main goal is to rapidly deploy ethical, trustworthy and technologically advanced AI models that will drive growth in key areas such as healthcare, industrial production, climate change and finance.

The Polish Piast AI Factory, managed by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in cooperation with Poznan University of Technology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and Nicolaus Copernicus University, will also play an important role in this project, which is also supported by ministries and regional innovation centers. The Polish factory, equipped with state-of-the-art HPC computing technologies and the EuroHPC Piast-Q quantum computer, will become a leading center for AI and quantum technology research on a global scale.

The mission of the Piast AI Factory is to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence in the academic, industrial, and public sectors, especially in areas such as health and biotechnology, IT, cybersecurity (including quantum technologies), space, robotics, and sustainable development (energy, agriculture, climate).

By 2026, all AI Factories will become the cornerstone of Europe’s digital strategy, enabling the continent to become a global technology leader. Five of the previously announced sites (in Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Sweden) are already preparing brand new AI-optimized supercomputers. Spain is upgrading its existing EuroHPC MareNostrum 5 system, and Greece is launching a factory linked to the DAEDALUS supercomputer. In addition, facilities in Finland and Spain will be equipped with specialized experimental platforms to develop and test the latest artificial intelligence models, strengthening collaboration and innovation on a European scale.