

PRESS RELEASE: The Launch of the First Polish AI Factory – PIAST-AI
Today at PCSS a significant step towards making Europe a leader in AI technology has been taken. The PIAST-AI Factory at the Poznań Center was selected by the European Commission to participate in the “AI Factories” program. This makes the Capital of Wielkopolska region a crucial driving force in the development of fields such as: IT, cybersecurity, space technologies, robotics, and sustainable development.

The PIAST-AI Factory
The PIAST-AI Factory, supported by Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe (PCSS), has been designed to be a leading AI innovation hub integrating HPC, cloud-based AI services, and cutting-edge research infrastructure in Poland.
KEY SECTORS:
- IT & Cybersecurity (incl. Quantum-enhanced AI)
- Health & Life Sciences
- Public Sector
- Space & Robotics
- Sustainability (Energy, Agriculture, Climate Change)

PIAST-AI Factory Services
To support AI adoption across selected sectors, the PIAST-AI Factory will provide an integrated ecosystem of AI services, including:
- AI Project Analysis & Development
- Data Management & Pre-processing
- AI Pipelines & Automation
- Large-Scale AI Model Training
- AI Model optimisation & Scaling
- AI Application Development & Deployment
- AI Training & Education

AI Factories
AI Factories are dynamic ecosystems that will build around AI-optimised supercomputers, offering computing resources and support services to the European industry, as well as to the European scientific users for the development of large AI models to take advantage of AI technology capabilities in the European Union, and for the development of skills and knowledge in the domain of AI.

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Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe
Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe (PCSS) affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences is an internationally known node of the European Research Area in the field of IT infrastructure of science and an important R&D center in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT).
As a development centre of e-Infrastructure, PCSS designed and built the Metropolitan Network POZMAN, High Performance Computing Center and the national broadband network PIONIER, maintained and still developed by PCSS.

Contact us:
email: info@piast-ai.eu