Introduction
The initiative aims to create an infrastructure and ecosystem supporting the development of advanced artificial intelligence technologies, aligned with European values of trust, transparency, and accountability. The Gaia AI Factory project encompasses the expansion of supercomputing infrastructure, broadening access to large-scale data repositories, and strengthening AI skills and competencies through a wide range of training and consulting services, as well as a talent development program.
Consortium
The Gaia AI Factory consortium consists of leading research institutions, domain experts, and technology partners representing AI stakeholder groups from across the country. These include: Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet and the Faculty of Space Technology of the AGH University of Krakow, Wrocław Centre for Networking and Supercomputing at Wrocław University of Science and Technology, CI TASK at Gdańsk University of Technology, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw, National Centre for Nuclear Research, National Research Institute NASK, the OPI National Research Institute, Sano – Centre for Personalized Computational Medicine – International Research Foundation, Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology at the Jagiellonian University, Institute of Mother and Child, and Kraków Technology Park.
The work of the Gaia AI Factory consortium, led by ACC Cyfronet AGH, is carried out with coordinated support from several key ministries: the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Ministry of Digital Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Development and Technology. Poland’s financial contribution to the project comes from the budgets of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Digital Affairs.
Computing infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence
The Polish AI Factory is set to become a national center of excellence, offering state-of-the-art infrastructure for advanced AI-related tasks. At its core will be a new supercomputer optimized for AI workloads, enabling large-scale training, testing, and deployment of artificial intelligence models. The system is designed to meet both current and future use cases, providing over a thousand GPU accelerators for AI model training and execution. The Gaia AI supercomputer will deliver computational power several times greater than Poland’s current fastest system, Helios. Notably, like Helios, it will be located in Kraków, managed by the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH, and tightly integrated with the national PLGrid infrastructure, leveraging existing expertise and know-how of Polish institutions.
New opportunities for society and the economy
The Gaia AI Factory is not only infrastructure, but also a collaboration platform for science, industry, and the public sector. It will offer a set of tools and services supporting the entire lifecycle of AI projects – from data preparation to model training and deployment. Thanks to the new infrastructure and science-business collaboration, AI-based solutions will be developed more quickly, accelerating scientific research, simplifying everyday life, improving public services, and boosting economic growth.
Examples of practical benefits:
- Healthcare: faster and more accurate imaging diagnostics, medical data analysis, personalized therapies, and decision support for doctors.
- Security and public administration: intelligent data analysis systems enabling quicker threat response, improved citizen services in offices, multilingual translations in public services.
- Education: access to open AI tools and training to develop digital competencies and foster the talents essential for a modern knowledge-based economy.
- Environment and space: satellite data analysis to monitor climate change, air quality, and natural disasters.
- Economy: support for startups and companies in creating new AI-based products and services – from industry to the creative sector.
In practice, the Gaia AI Factory is expected to make AI solutions more accessible, safe, and ethical, positioning Poland as a place to develop innovations based on Europe’s most advanced infrastructure. The project will include a range of training sessions and workshops to help participants acquire new skills and enhance their digital competencies.
Access to the Gaia AI Factory
Once the Gaia computer is fully installed and running, access will be provided within the PLGrid infrastructure.
