The EU-funded AI-BOOST project has launched its first tender, offering up to €250,000 in equity-free financing to up to four high-potential European small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups with the technical capacity and experience to work on large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models.

The competition for four interesting prizes is open to F6S until 16 January 2024 at 17:00 CET:

o LUMI Winner: Up to two prizes of €250,000 and allocation of 2 million hours of GPU in LUMI per project

o Leonardo Winner: Up to two prizes of €250,000 and the allocation of 2 million GPU hours at the Leonardo facility per project

Moreover:

• you have the chance to become part of a network that includes DG Connect of the European Commission – CNECT AI and Robotics and EuroHPC-JU;

• you have the possibility to use EuroHPC-JU facilities and target supercomputers.

For more information, you can join the first info webinar, which will be on December 12 at 10:00 CET.

More information on the AI-BOOST website