
A consortium of Swedish partners, including AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Saab, SEB, and Wallenberg Investments AB, has announced its intention to invest in an AI compute infrastructure consortium and build a new Sweden-focused AI Factory that will utilize NVIDIA-based computing capabilities to help drive national digitalization. The initiative seeks to establish a next-generation AI compute infrastructure that is both a production facility and a reference installation, unlocking new possibilities for AI adoption.
The new system, which is to be operated by a joint company, is intended to provide secure, sovereign compute access to the industry partners and drive new AI innovation in Sweden through knowledge sharing and boosting AI competence within the industry.
The intended first phase of the deployment will be two NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs featuring NVIDIA’s latest generation Grace Blackwell GB300 systems, making it the largest enterprise AI supercomputer in Sweden once operational. It is intended to run compute-heavy AI workloads to speed up processes such as training domain-specific AI models and large-scale inference, including reasoning AI. NVIDIA plans to concurrently establish its first AI Technology Center in Sweden to drive AI research with the industry partners.
More on the Swedish Consortium partners:
ASTRAZENECA will use the system to spearhead the next generation of AI-enabled drug discovery and development involving methods such as foundation model training, multi-model inference, and unique data processing capabilities.
ERICSSON will leverage its data science expertise to develop and deploy state-of-the-art AI models to improve performance and efficiency, enhance customer experience, and enable new business models and use cases.
SAAB will deploy AI methodology to significantly accelerate the development of new state-of-the-art defense capabilities.
SEB will use AI as a central part of its ambition to drive productivity enhancement, power new customer offerings, and future-proof the bank. Securing access to critical infrastructure is a strategically important part of this ambition.
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