Romania begins implementing RO AI Factory project

02 September 2026 Romania officially began implementing the RO AI Factory project on Tuesday, September 1, with the infrastructure expected to become operational by the end of 2027, Agerpres reported. Hosted by the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest), the initiative will provide national computing infrastructure for developing, training, testing, and validating artificial intelligence models and applications. The project is funded by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) through the Horizon-JU-EuroHPC-2025-AI call. “We want RO AI Factory to become a meeting point for research, academia, companies, and the public sector and, most importantly, a framework in which infrastructure, expertise, and collaboration lead to