The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected six new sites across Europe to host additional AI Factories, which are set to be deployed next year in Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Poland, and Slovenia.
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France and Germany will establish AI Factories, which operate alongside Europe’s first exascale supercomputers, Alice Recoque and JUPITER.
Meanwhile, Austria, Bulgaria, Poland and Slovenia, will deploy new AI-optimised systems with AI Factories to further expand Europe’s AI infrastructure.
The AI Factory in Germany (Julich) will also include an experimental platform, which will serve as a cutting-edge infrastructure for developing and testing innovative AI models and applications, as well as promoting collaboration across Europe.
These new six AI Factories will be added to the seven AI Factories previously selected, creating an interconnected network of AI hubs ready to accommodate AI innovation across Europe.
Each factory will be one-stop shop, offering AI startups, SMEs, and researchers with comprehensive support to develop their data-sets as well as to access to AI-optimised high-performance computing (HPC) resources, training, and technical expertise.
The AI Factory Austria (AI:AT) aims to support ethical, practical and sustainable AI development, helping businesses, researchers, and policymakers turn ideas into useful solutions.
The AI Factory will be installed at TU Wien, Vienna.
The Bulgarian AI Factory BRAIN++, will be located at Sofia Tech Park, in Sofia, Bulgaria, and will comprise of two key components, which will operate in synergy: the Discoverer++, a next-generation supercomputer tailored for advanced AI workloads, and the Bulgarian AI Factory, a comprehensive AI hub offering one-stop shop governmental, education and private companies which will be able to adopt and responsibly innovate with AI.
BRAIN++ aims to position Bulgaria as a regional leader in AI innovation by fostering talent development, supporting startups/SMEs, and driving further development and deployment of Bulgarian Language LLMs, Robotics AI, Space Observation AI, product manufacturing (with an emphasis on consumer good products), Trustworthy AI Compliance Tools, Federated AI Data Lake, collaborative office and virtual AI workspaces (BulgAI Sandbox) and with AI skills and talent development and responsible AI entrepreneurship.
The AI Factory France (AI2F) will build on an existing, decentralised AI French ecosystem, involving large companies, startups, research laboratories, data centres, universities and schools, venture capitalists and incubators as well as AI think tanks and associations.
The AI2F relies on Alice Recoque, the second EuroHPC Exascale supercomputer, which is an AI-ready EuroHPC supercomputer. As this system will start being deployed in 2026, the AI2F is committed to provide access to the existing French national infrastructures, owned by GENCI: Jean Zay at IDRIS (CNRS), Adastra at CINES (France Universités), and Joliot-Curie at TGCC (CEA).
As AI2F is part of a European infrastructure of AI factories within an AI Continent, it will collaborate with other AI Factories in Europe (especially with the JAIF German AI Factory led by Forschungszentrum Jülich) and many European stakeholders (including ALT_EDIC, BDVA, EOSC, Gaia-X, EDIHs and TEFs to name a few).
JAIF, the JUPITER AI Factory (in Germany), will contribute to Europe's AI innovation cluster by supporting the development and deployment of AI solutions using Europe's HPC infrastructure, particularly to address growing industry needs.
The JAIF leverages the capabilities of Europe’s first exascale supercomputer JUPITER (Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research) to support European startups, SMEs, industries, the public sector, and the broader scientific and technological community.
The PIAST AI Factory is dedicated to advancing AI research, innovation, and application in Poland and across Europe. By bridging the gap between academia, industry, and government, the PIAST AI Factory fosters a dynamic ecosystem for knowledge exchange and AI innovation.
The PIAST AIF seeks to accelerate the adoption of AI technologies across academia and industry sectors, in particular for Health & Life sciences, IT & Cybersecurity (including Quantum), Space & Robotics, Sustainability (Energy, Agriculture and Climate Change) and the public sector.
SLAIF, the Slovenian AIF, will provide companies and the public sector with AI tools to enhance competitiveness, improve services, and benefit citizens.
SLAIF will provide a dedicated AI-optimised supercomputing facility, , located at IZUM in Maribor, that will support industrial AI applications and enable training of large-scale AI models, conducting inference at scale, and supporting AI-driven scientific discovery. ■
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