Pieter Levels on getting blocked from accessing GPUs in EU

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Horizon is still active. Although it's extremely bureaucratic, the Innovation funds of Europe actually help a lot of founders with no prior affiliations. As much as I bitch about weird EU rules all the time, this is not true.

Okay how can I get on the list so I can get my EU GPU?

No Horizon is still activ. The problem with it you need to be part of an institution mostly Universities. It might be not efficent as you say but many technologies you are using or Startups are build on sunk cost where projects like Horizon.

But it was made for business

Horizon 2020 COUNTRY list. Country. In other words: all of EU plus a few others (eg Norway). Not saying this isn’t overly bureaucratic, but you’d definitely be eligible

Nope it's a list of organizations

The way I read this... aren't you excluded by default because your organization is not on the origination list for Horizon 2020?

not sure devoting a supercomputer cluster (it's not just GPUs people) to removing backgrounds from selfies is what they had in mind tho

That's not what my apps do

✨ The biggest upgrade to Photo AI's model since Flux I managed to make the photos VERY realistic now by combining more models together for realism Highly detailed environment + high person resemblance at the same time So I call it [ 🤯 Photo AI Realism ] Here's some pics!!!

@grok is this real ? were those the only conditions ?

Hahah wait until you dig even deeper in this! The plot thickens even more!

please keep digging this 🙏

🤡 that’s the EU!

This is so Europe it hurts

€80B pissed down the drain… and people ask me why I am concerned about France talking about global taxation.

So it’s all a farce?

There was no plan to increase that list? Strange as hell.

Reminds me the story I heard from @elonmusk when he proposed the Tesla car plug to European leaders, and they said the plug for EVs had already been selected like 20 years before 🙄😂😭

Lot money laundering earmarks... Private listing, Pre-Approved Orgs, intransparente during action, no clear leadership personal, dripping budget with no visible effects, impossible to get information or speak to somebody,.. Is this run by the Italian Mafia?

I’m sure cloud providers in EU provide more grants and credits to use gpus than that program

European Union either needs to be dissolved or stripped back down to it’s roots and given very very limited power. Seems like it will only do more harm than good from this point onwards.

I have an idea who was behind all this EU smartness

And that’s called an AI cloud based on pre 2020 grants (before ChatGPT)even existed. Sounds like AI lipstick on an HPC

That whole EU subsidy scheme is probably at best completely useless but probably corrupt as hell. eg I know of fake “startup accelerators” being funded with that tax money if you know the right bureaucrats you can get set up with nice salaries etc.