This initiative funds research to advance the scientific and technical foundations for scaling AI models, focusing on predictive methodologies, automated scaling law derivation, architecture search, dataset mixture optimization, and hyperparameter tuning. Projects must develop toolsets compatible with diverse hardware and support European AI labs and HPC centers to maintain global leadership in AI performance and efficiency.
Eligible applicants are legal entities established in EU Member States, Iceland, Norway, and specified associated countries including Canada, Israel, South Korea, New Zealand, UK, Switzerland, and Japan. Entities controlled by non-eligible countries, especially China, face restrictions and must prov