Comment by LAION

Open‑source AI research organisation
We call upon the global community, particularly the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, to collaborate on a monumental initiative: the establishment of an international, publicly funded, open-source supercomputing research facility. This facility, analogous to the CERN project in scale and impact, should house a diverse array of machines equipped with at least 100,000 high-performance state-of-the-art accelerators (GPUs or ASICs), operated by experts from the machine learning and supercomputing research community and overseen by democratically elected institutions in the participating nations. AI Verified source (2023)
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AI Verified Web search confirms this exact quote is from LAION's March 2023 petition "Securing Our Digital Future: A CERN for Open Source large-scale AI Research and its Safety". Multiple secondary sources (openpetition.eu, openfuture.eu, the-decoder.com, mlconference.ai) corroborate the wording verbatim. The source URL on laion.ai returned 403 to WebFetch, but the petition is widely cited. LAION calls for "an" international facility (singular) "analogous to the CERN project" — so the "for" vote on a single central hub is consistent. Year is 2023; LAION's position appears unchanged through 2025/2026 (no contradictory recent statement found). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1d ago
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