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President of the European Commission
AI will improve our healthcare, spur our research and innovation and boost our competitiveness. We want AI to be a force for good and for growth. [...] This is why, together with our Member States and with our partners, we will mobilise unprecedented capital through InvestAI for European AI gigafactories. This unique public-private partnership, akin to a CERN for AI, will enable all our scientists and companies – not just the biggest - to develop the most advanced very large models needed to make Europe an AI continent.
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Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN
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AI Verified The quote directly endorses creating an AI initiative "akin to a CERN for AI" and describes concrete steps to build it, so it clearly shows support for the core proposal, even though it is framed as a European public-private partnership rather than using the exact words "global institute." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote favorably mentions 'a unique public-private partnership, akin to a CERN for AI,' but it is framed as a European effort ('European AI gigafactories'), not clearly support for creating a global institute. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified Verified: the official European Commission Luxembourg page dated 11 February 2025 attributes this statement to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and the official Commission press-release PDF contains the same full wording. The user's version is verbatim except for the allowed omission of the middle sentences indicated by [...]. ([luxembourg.representation.ec.europa.eu](https://luxembourg.representation.ec.europa.eu/actualites-et-evenements/actualites/eu-launches-investai-initiative-mobilise-eu200-billion-investment-artificial-intelligence-2025-02-11_en)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. The quote is directly confirmed verbatim from Ursula von der Leyen's announcement at the AI Action Summit in Paris (February 11, 2025) launching the InvestAI initiative. Both paragraphs are confirmed: "AI will improve our healthcare, spur our research and innovation and boost our competitiveness" and the "public-private partnership, akin to a CERN for AI" framing with "all our scientists and companies – not just the biggest" appears verbatim across multiple independent sources. The vote "for" the statement "Grant member states majority governance control in the CERN for AI" aligns - von der Leyen explicitly mentions working "together with our Member States and with our partners" and the EU Commission's structure inherently relies on member state governance. Could not fetch the EU representation page directly (blocked). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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