EU Council Adopts Regulation on Use of Super-Computers for AI Development

June 19, 2024

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Summary

On June 19, 2024, Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1732 of 17 June 2024 was published in the Official Journal of the European Union, amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1173 in regards to the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) initiative for startups which aims to boost European leadership in trustworthy AI. The EuroHPC was established in 2018 and is committed to developing world-leading supercomputing infrastructure in the EU. The amended Regulation will now allow the EuroHPC initiative to develop and operate AI factories, where AI-dedicated supercomputers will be used in machine learning and the training of general-purpose AI models. Willy Borsus, Belgian Minister of the Economy, stated the objective of this regulation is to “support a highly competitive and innovative AI ecosystem and strengthen the EU’s technological autonomy.”

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https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202401732#ntr3-L_202401732EN.000101-E0003

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