The European Commission has introduced the AI Continent Action Plan to bolster the EU's AI development and deployment capabilities. Key initiatives include 13 AI factories and five gigafactories to provide the computing power necessary for training large models, supported by €20 billion in public and private investments. The plan emphasizes access to high-quality data through a Data Union Strategy and aims to triple the EU's data center capacity. However, experts express concerns about execution gaps and the current state of AI training in Europe, highlighting a disconnect between ambition and actual capabilities.
Despite the scale of the plan, several experts in the AI ecosystem have expressed concerns about the gap between ambition and current capability. Pierre-Carl Langlais, co-founder of Pleias, one of the few independent LLM labs in Europe, noted: 'This is welcome on paper, but still have to see how it's fleshed out in practice. There is nearly no one actually training models. I run one of the very few independent LLM labs in Europe, and I have the feeling of being surrounded by generals and regulators with no soldiers.'
The AI Continent Action Plan aims to strengthen the EU's capacity for AI development and deployment, with coordinated investments, infrastructure creation, and strategic sector adoption.
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