European Commission Unveils AI Adoption Strategy for Industries
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Summary
The European Commission unveiled its 'Apply AI' strategy aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence adoption across European industries. The strategy includes a 'Frontier AI Initiative' that will bring together companies and researchers to develop advanced AI capabilities, including competitions for new open AI models with free access to EU supercomputers. The plan outlines various measures to help industries scale AI implementation, though specific execution details remain limited.
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· 4 pulledTech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen presented the Commission's Apply AI strategy on Wednesday, outlining a support plan aimed at helping industries across Europe adopt artificial intelligence at scale.
Top of mind is AI development itself: a 'Frontier AI Initiative' is set to bring together companies and researchers to unlock 'advanced capabilities'.
This will include competitions to develop new open AI models, which the strategy says will get free access to EU-run supercomputers.
Today's officially unveiled Apply AI strategy urges whole branches of industries to lean into using artificial intelligence, but finer execution detail is lacking.
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