199. Meet Gaia: Building Poland’s Factory for European AI

Europe’s ambition to become the world’s first “AI Continent” rests on a 
growing network of AI Factories – EuroHPC-linked centres across the 
continent that combine AI-optimised supercomputing with curated data, 
domain expertise and support services. Gaia AI Factory is Poland’s 
newest addition to this network. Coordinated by ACC Cyfronet AGH in 
Krakow and built by a multidisciplinary consortium spanning five 
national HPC centres, universities, clinical institutes and technology 
partners, Gaia will give researchers, companies and public institutions 
access to AI infrastructure and expertise, while connecting them to the 
wider European ecosystem.

In this talk I will introduce Gaia: why it is being built, what it will 
consist of, and what it will actually offer its users. I will cover the 
planned AI-optimised system and the service layer that sits on top of 
it. I will pay particular attention to healthcare, one of Gaia’s core 
domains alongside large language models and space technologies, and to 
what a GDPR-compliant and AI Act-aligned environment for medical data 
means in practice.

Finally, I will explain how researchers, clinicians, startups and public 
institutions will be able to access Gaia’s resources, and where Sano – 
as one of the consortium partners – fits into this picture.