Article 1, Point (3) · Council Regulation (EU) 2026/150

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(3)in Article 4(1), the following points are added:

(i)AI gigafactory pillar, covering activities of AI gigafactories which in their operation could be connected with the EuroHPC network of AI factories for ensuring seamless integration, user support and knowledge sharing across the European AI ecosystem; this pillar shall include the following activities:

(i)providing a world-class AI computing infrastructure for European researchers, entrepreneurs and industries, including SMEs, start-ups, scale-ups and the public sector;

(ii)enabling the development of new AI solutions across all public and private sectors, including the development of foundation models; and

(iii)ensuring the Union’s competitiveness and sovereignty as an AI continent;

(j)quantum technologies pillar, addressing the full quantum ecosystem and the application domains of quantum computing and simulation, quantum communication, and quantum sensing and metrology, ensuring the security and resilience of the quantum supply chain and its enabling technologies; those activities shall address inter alia:

(i)scientific and technological research and innovation: advancing research excellence in quantum science and technology domains;

(ii)transition from the “lab-to-the-fab” and ecosystem development: supporting the development and deployment of state-of-the-art quantum infrastructures; fostering the industrialisation of quantum technologies by supporting the uptake of quantum applications in key public and industrial sectors; ensuring the translation of advances across all quantum domains into real-world applications, including the development of lead markets; promoting European and international standards; and supporting the development and networking of national quantum competence centres across Europe;

(iii)the acceleration of the development and operationalisation of fault-tolerant quantum computing systems relying on public measures to support a competitive European quantum ecosystem and supply chain based on technologies made and designed in Europe;

(iv)skills and talent: developing a competitive and inclusive quantum research and engineering workforce through coordinated education, training and mobility initiatives, across key quantum-related disciplines and technical fields;

(v)international cooperation: developing international collaboration in quantum technologies to solve global scientific and societal challenges, in line with the external policy objectives and international commitments of the Union.’

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