Sweden gets one of the EU's seven AI factories

“This means that Sweden is among the first countries to implement the European Commission’s concept of AI nodes to drive research and innovation forward and make AI accessible to more users than ever before,” Matts Karlsson, Vice-Rector for Research at Linköping University, said in a comment.

“The focus of Mimer will be on things like increased AI expertise in the life sciences, medicine, materials research, autonomous systems and the gaming industry, and the goal is to offer state-of-the-art AI infrastructure and expertise for research and innovation. Both industry and academia will have quick access to hardware, training and support for AI applications.

Funding for Mimer is shared 50/50 between EuroHPC JU, an EU public-private partnership, and Sweden, through the Swedish Research Council and the innovation agency Vinnova.