Photonics LLM training cluster rejected by EU funding program for 'not innovative enough'
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-06
- IgorCarron revealed his project aimed to build an LLM training cluster using their own photonics tech, with results already published in Science (though publication took too long).
- The project was rejected by an EU funding program as "not innovative enough" — he calls the program a cost opportunity, plain and simple.
- Quotee Jonathan Grahl says his startup Molnett was declined for building a cloud from scratch without non-EU dependencies, under the same rationale.
- The thread highlights how hard it is for European compute-infrastructure startups to get official funding support.
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