further details:
Meanwhile, the French financing will include commitments from the United Arab Emirates, American and Canadian investments funds and French companies like telecommunications firms Iliad and Orange, and aerospace and defense group Thales
A few days before France’s AI Action Summit, which kicked off on Monday, the UAE said it would invest between 30 billion euros and 50 billion euros in the construction of a one-gigawatt AI data center in France as part of a campus focused on the technology’s development.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/frances-answer-to-stargate-macron-announces-ai-investment.html
Macron, you stupid slut, there’s been nothing but news for the past month about how cheap you can build a competitor to the former top models.
Heheh, but reportedly, the hedge fund that owns Deepseek has 1.6 billion worth of servers. Plus they need to pay electricity, employees… and researchers and computer people often get a decent salary. That makes me think at least a few billions is the correct amount… If we want to do research on the level Deepseek does.
Building a cheaper model that’s not as good as the top AI models is not the best way to build AI models, cheaper yes, but Deepseek isn’t the best AI model out there, it still gets beat by Googles/Claudes/OpenAI etc
A better way would be to combine the Deepseek training optimisations with raw power of Americas/nvidias hardware
We’re still at an early stage with AI, there’s nothing to suggest we’re anywhere near the end of Jevons paradox
Sometimes Claude Haiku (which has few billion parameters) knows things that ChatGPT doesn’t.
Deepseak did show it could be done cheaply but imagine if you could take their optimisations and throw more power behind it (ie: buy a fuck tone of GPUs that the Chinese dont officially have access to)
Could work, the EU should pursue AI independence else it will continue its slide into irrelevance. Glad France is stepping up to the plate on this