The title of this DLD Future Hub session may sound like something out of a fairy tale, but Blue Lion and Blue Swan actually refer to Bavaria’s push into supercomputing and building an AI gigafactory, as Dieter Kranzlmüller explains.
“Blue Lion is our next supercomputer”, the LMU professor says. Offering 30 times the performance of the currently fastest computer, it will serve in science and research, “offering capabilities for simulation, for modeling, and for AI.”
That technical leap sets the stage for an even bigger idea: an AI gigafactory. Conceived to serve Germany and all of Europe with “100,000 of the latest AI chips”, the Blue Swan proposal is a response to the European Commission’s call for continent-scale AI infrastructure.
Kranzlmüller emphasizes that Blue Swan is “a proposal originating from Bavaria” and that its name intentionally signals regional roots and European reach.
“We thought about something where Bavaria is represented, the swan”, Kranzlmüller explains. “And we also thought about something that needs to to cover all of Europe, to provide services for all of Europe, for
our values and how we think that AI should be trained.”
Watch the video for technical details and further information on both projects.
