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Commission and EuroHPC JU launch Frontier AI Grand Challenge for a European model

The Commission and EuroHPC JU launched the Frontier AI Grand Challenge on 13 February 2026, inviting a European team to build a frontier AI model of at least 400 billion parameters; the winner gets up to 2.5 percent of EuroHPC's compute capacity for a year, applications close 13 April 2026.

Verified Editor-read EuroHPC Joint Undertaking press release, 16 February 2026

What it does not test. It does not commit funding or name a winning project; no team has yet been selected.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Launches AI model challenge; no winner or funding committed, applications not yet closed. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-09-19. How the record is made

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