Eviden, the Atos Group business pioneering in digital, cloud, big data and security announces the signature of a 50-million-euro contract with the Serbia’s Office for IT and eGovernment.
Together, Eviden and the Serbian administration will deploy a National AI Factory – composed of an AI Centre of Excellence and a pioneering AI-dedicated supercomputing platform – aiming to accelerate Serbia’s AI capabilities and foster innovation across key sectors while reinforcing its technological autonomy using European technologies.
AI innovation and growth
Eviden will empower Serbia to address the growing challenges and requirements of AI
More than just a simple infrastructure, an AI Factory is an extensive and complete set of shared AI-dedicated assets – talents, expertise, software, hardware – to foster AI innovation and growth, to democratise its use and to drive successful large-scale projects.
By providing all necessary resources with European technologies through this single contract, Eviden will empower Serbia to address the growing challenges and requirements of AI.
Advanced software layers
This new National AI Factory, a first in the Balkan region, will integrate cutting-edge supercomputing resources, advanced software layers and specialised vertical expertise for use-case design and deployment.
This dynamic ecosystem will be made accessible to Serbian public institutions, academic players and businesses in order to harness the power of AI and address critical challenges in health, energy, transportation and administration.
Innovative AI use cases
Eviden deploys its BullSequana XH3000 supercomputer, designed in its French flagship factory
To meet Serbia’s needs for computing power, Eviden will deploy its BullSequana XH3000 supercomputer, designed and manufactured in its French flagship factory.
With up to 25 PetaFlops of computational power – the equivalent of 25 million billion operations per second – as well as 300 GPUs and 2.5 Petabytes of storage, this AI supercomputer will serve as the backbone of this AI Centre of Excellence, providing the necessary computing power to develop and run innovative AI use cases.
Implementation of Eviden’s BullSequana AI platform
In addition to this AI-dedicated hardware, the project will see the implementation of Eviden’s BullSequana AI platform, designed to accelerate AI applications development.
The Eviden software layer will integrate Mistral AI assets who brings its pioneering European GenAI models to help drive groundbreaking use cases.
Application of AI to Serbia’s strategic sectors
AI specialists will bring their deep sense of sector-specific needs, ensuring an effective application of AI
This combination of hardware and software capabilities will be complemented by a vertical AI expertise drawn from Eviden’s teams in France, Czech Republic and Serbian AI ecosystem.
These AI specialists will bring their deep understanding of sector-specific needs, ensuring an effective application of AI to Serbia’s strategic sectors. They will also assist in recruiting and training engineers and academics across Serbia, ensuring the AI Centre of Excellence becomes a self-sustaining hub for innovation.
Application of artificial intelligence
Mihailo Jovanovic, PhD, Director of the Office for IT and eGovernment, Government of the Republic of Serbia, said, “This partnership with Eviden, Europe’s pioneering supercomputing and AI player, is a historic moment for our country’s digital future, demonstrating the spirit of Franco-Serbian cooperation."
"It is not just a technological leap but a statement of our commitment to foster innovation, advanced our economy and strengthen our position as regional pioneer in AI. This project is a key step towards implementing Serbia’s vision in accordance with "Leap into the Future – Serbia 2027" Program and plans for further modernisation, digitalisation, and the application of artificial intelligence.”
How Europe’s technology pioneers can drive AI innovation
Emmanuel Le Roux, Head of Advanced Computing, Eviden, Atos Group, said, “With its investment and current leading responsibility in the Global Partnership on AI, Serbia has been at the forefront of AI research and application in Europe."
"This one-of-a-kind project is yet another example of its commitment toward technological advanced and economic growth, while contributing to the strategic cooperation between France and Serbia for AI and reinforcing the country’s technological sovereignty. It underlines Eviden’s unique end-to-end positioning and demonstrates once again how Europe’s technology pioneers can drive AI innovation while ensuring technological autonomy and sovereignty.”
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