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EPFL physician; ICANN initiative
Yeah, sure. I think what we all saw with the use case over there is what is possible when people work together and when they are convened on purpose, right? And with a specific purpose in mind. It’s so important. And to formalize that around these resources that we do have in Switzerland, we’ve made ICANN, which stands for the International Computing and AI Network. Now, while it has been convened in Switzerland, it is intentionally international.
It has a principle of decentralization, democratization of the resources that we have available, often in higher resource settings. And to convene, as you can see here in blue, the mission, to convene people working together and to broaden access to these really essential resources, such as massive scale compute. It’s a very big deal what the Swiss government has done here, but not just in Switzerland, but around the world.
And you’ll see that that’s the important word up there is network, where you can see the different partners that we’ve already convened around this, who are also donating their compute to this cause. And data, massive scale data. This data is important to curate. AI is data. We can’t just compute thin air. So it’s important that we convene on data that is purposeful and meaningful and directed. And indeed, we can’t do anything with data and compute if we don’t have the talent. And not just the talent of making models, but the talent of understanding where those models can be used and can be impactful. And the most important thing that we’re convening around is that we’re convening around, as I said before, a purpose. And that purpose, just like kind of CERN for AI, you can think of it like that.
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