Article 8

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Official source: COM(2026) 502 final — Proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act

Article 8

Criteria for frontier AI priority projects
          The Commission may, by means of a decision, recognise as frontier AI priority
          projects, projects selected through open calls for expression of interest that support
          grand challenge 3 set out in Annex I, provided that the following criteria are fulfilled:
          (a)   it is a pioneering project, focused on the support and scaling-up of frontier AI
                technologies;
          (b)   it is undertaken by a European digital infrastructure consortium established
                pursuant Decision (EU) 2022/2481 or another legal entity eligible for funding
                under Union law and it involves the participation of at least three Member
                States;
          (c)   the participating Member States pool computing time and other relevant
                resources to support the implementation of the designated project.

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