[impossiblefork]

I think the way to do it is this: let EU chip design firms bid. They say what their systems can do, they give their prices, and then we choose the one that can achieve the requirements (pretrain multiple 10T+ models in a reasonable amount of time and then do RL on them) at the lowest cost.

[sajithdilshan]

There has to be a deadline and also a penalty if they don’t deliver. That way the company cannot just take the money and pocket it and just say oops, we failed