JUPITER AI Factory × hessian.AI
What do you need from us: GPUs, models, services?
The JUPITER AI Factory (JAIF) and hessian.AI are deciding which technical services to offer AI startups next: GPU compute, a hosted LLM API, consulting, training. Tell us what you actually need. About 15 minutes. We ask for your startup name so we can enter you in the prize draw and allocate compute; your answers stay with hessian.AI as a consortium member, and JAIF receives aggregated results only. Antworten gern auch auf Deutsch.
Time
15 min
30 questions, mostly one click
For
AI startups
Germany and the EU, any stage
On offer
GPU hours, API or EU access
pick what actually helps you
Closes
4 Oct 2026
final report to JAIF in October
About the JUPITER AI Factory
hessian.AI is a consortium member of the EU-funded JUPITER AI Factory (JAIF). It is built around JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer and the fastest supercomputer on the continent. Through tailored support, access to world-class computing infrastructure, and a collaborative innovation environment, JAIF helps to transform ideas into impactful AI solutions and accelerate the journey from concept to real-world application. As the one-stop shop for AI innovation, we provide a single point of contact for startups, small- and medium-sized enterprises, researchers and public institutions for every stage of your AI journey. jaif.ai
A
About your startup
Six quick facts so we can read the answers by stage and sector.
The JAIF service catalogue is sorted by these three levels, so this decides which services we point you to.
B
Your compute today
Where it runs, what it costs, what hurts.
Pick up to 3.
Optional. The most useful sentence in this survey.
C
What you need in the next 12 months
Workloads, GPU hours, hosting, the one model you cannot do without.
Optional. e.g. "fine-tune a 7B model on 50k documents every month".
Pick up to 3.
There is already an endpoint in the consortium
JAIF runs Blablador, an LLM service at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre with a web interface and an API, and is building JARVIS, an inference module alongside the JUPITER training system. Answer the model questions for what you actually need, not for what you think we can deliver. Explore Blablador
D
Services, price and the EU route
Which services you would actually use, what a GPU hour is worth to you, and whether the European access calls are already on your radar.
Pick up to 3. This list mirrors the JAIF service catalogue, so your top 3 decides what gets built and staffed first.
Curious what already exists? The JAIF service catalogue and the hessian.AI compute services.
Using a hosted API rather than GPUs? Pick the last option.
Compute from the EU, not only from us
Access to JUPITER and the other European supercomputers runs through the AI Factory access calls. They are open to startups, cost nothing, and take applications all year round. Playground Access is the entry point with a decision in about two working days; Fast Lane Access gives medium allocations to startups and SMEs doing AI; Large Scale Access goes beyond 50,000 GPU hours for up to a year. If that route fits you better than ours, say so below and we help you apply instead of handing you a smaller quota. EuroHPC AI Factory access calls
Multiple answers. No wrong answer here: we want to know how visible these routes are.
E
Constraints
One question.
F
Compute for you, and staying in touch
Pick a lane, leave a contact if you want something from us. All optional.
Optional.
Stay in touch (all optional, each independent of the survey)
G
Reasoning and trust
Three short questions for the work package hessian.AI leads inside JAIF, plus an optional deeper part.
Why we ask this: hessian.AI in JAIF
Within JAIF, hessian.AI contributes expertise in trustworthy and safe AI, with a strong focus on reasoning-centred AI. The team develops methods, datasets, models, and benchmarks for robust and practically deployable AI systems. In addition, hessian.AI supports JAIF along the customer journey, AI training and knowledge transfer.
Pick up to 3.
One more minute for the research team (optional)
Agents and reasoning in more depth. Skip if you do not build agents.
No account, no login. Your answers stay with hessian.AI; the JUPITER AI Factory receives aggregated results only. Privacy notice.
hessian.AI is a consortium member of the EU-funded JUPITER AI Factory (JAIF). Funded by the European Union. This work has received funding from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) and from the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW) and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Arts and Culture (HMWK) under grant agreement No 101250682.
Compute quotas and API access offered here are provided by AI Startup Rising, the startup programme of hessian.AI, from its own compute pool; they are not part of the JAIF funding.