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Olivier Debeugny, CEO of French fintech Dragon LLM (formerly Lingua Custodia), received a call from the European Commission in June 2024: his company had won a prize from the European Commission. Along with €250,000, the real windfall was access to 2 million GPU hours, on two of Europe’s super computers (the Italian Leonardo and Germany’s Jupiter) normally worth €7–10 million.
This prize enabled Dragon LLM to tackle one of AI’s biggest headaches: energy-hungry large language models (LLMs). Instead of using transformer…
