OVHcloud is training frontier AI models and the Anthropic export ban just made its pitch a lot easier
OVHcloud announced at VivaTech that it has completed pre-training on its first frontier AI model using Jupiter, Europe's fastest supercomputer, and plans a family of open-source models built on its DragonLLM acquisition. CEO Octave Klaba says falling compute costs have made the project viable at €150-200 million, a fraction of what it would have cost previously. The announcement arrives days after Anthropic's US export ban shut European enterprises off from its top models, handing OVHcloud a pow