Topic: AI Factory

TELUS and L-SPARK have announced a new partnership to provide Canadian startups and innovators with access to the TELUS Sovereign AI Factory – Canada’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer – addressing a critical barrier facing Canadian AI startups: access to high-performance compute infrastructure without relocating or building on foreign platforms.

Deutsche Telekom has won a new contract worth tens of millions for its Industrial AI Cloud. Leibniz University Hannover has awarded the contract to provide the technical infrastructure for the SOOFI (Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models) research project in the AI factory. The goal of SOOFI is to develop a new, powerful, and sovereign large language model (LLM) with around 100 billion parameters ' operated and trained entirely in Europe.