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Comment by Mark Surman

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Mozilla Foundation president
The idea of just creating a bunch of big companies with venture capital behind them and they fight it out isn’t the only paradigm. [...] If Switzerland uses 10,000 of its research GPUs and Canada puts forward its research computers, and these resources are put towards open source infrastructure, then you incent researchers to work together and you get quite naturally this idea of the CERN for AI. Not because you go and build one Large Hadron Collider, but because you just pool digital resources that people are already spending money on. If you put a different technical and economic lens on how you organise the work there, Europe and potentially your collaborators are well-situated both to catch up and to leap ahead. AI Verified source (2025)
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The CERN for AI should be completely non-profit

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AI Verified Verified via web search. The quote is directly confirmed: Mark Surman (Mozilla Foundation president) made these statements in a Euronews interview from February 2025 about Europe pooling resources for AI. Confirmed elements: Switzerland's 10,000 research GPUs, Canada's research computers, the "CERN for AI" idea created by pooling digital resources rather than building a Large Hadron Collider equivalent, and the contrast with venture-capital-funded big companies. The vote "for" the statement "The CERN for AI should be completely non-profit" perfectly aligns - Surman explicitly contrasts his model with "big companies with venture capital" and advocates pooling research/government resources for open-source infrastructure, which is fundamentally a non-profit approach. Could not fetch euronews.com directly (blocked) but attribution and quote content are confirmed by independent web search results. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 5d ago
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