Commission is shaping up €500M generative artificial intelligence calls

16 Jul 2024 | News

GenAI4EU initiative will fund consortia to solve real-world industrial problems in partnership with companies

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The European Commission is working up multiple generative artificial intelligence calls in next year’s Horizon Europe work programme as part of a €500 million push to find industrial real-world uses for the technology popularised by ChatGPT.

The GenAI4EU initiative is one plank of the Commission’s plan, announced in January, to help the EU catch up when it comes to AI.

The idea is to fund multiple Horizon Europe calls for consortia that solve genuine industrial problems, using new forms of generative…