How much Google will invest in Poland? Settlements on the web. “$ 5 per Pole”

$ 5 million for $ 1 million: Prime Minister Donald Tusk met on Thursday in Warsaw with the head of Google. Sundar Pichai, head of the concern, declared, among others that Google will allocate $ 5 million to increase digital competences 1 million Poles. After this announcement on the web It has been swarmed with mockery and malicious comments. Earlier, the Polish press agency incorrectly said that it was about $ 5 billion.

“$ 5 per Pole”: “Journalists could not believe that the Polish Prime Minister and the President of the Great Business announced Investment with the expansion value of ul. Nadbrzeżna in Gąski in the commune of Mielno” – Janusz Cieszyński, a former minister of digitization in the PiS government, wrote on the platform X.Great Google investment in Poland This is ‘training 1 million Poles from AI for $ 5 million’ ‘Or $ 5 per Pole’ ” – she emphasized.

8 percent GDP?: “And so we will be a great power on the bank, because AI is to give us 8 percent of GDP in 10 years or about 55-69 billion. I wonder what algorithm has calculated it” – added the journalist. It is a reference to information that during a joint conference Tusk and Pichai announced the signing of the Memorandum on cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence. – We estimate that thanks to our future cooperation we will be able to increase Polish GDP by about 8 percent – emphasized Google’s head.

“Hood”: In turn, Daniel Maikowski from Next.gazeta.pl A joint conference of the Prime Minister and the head of Google as “Kapiszona”. “It was supposed to be a large computing center. However, we got a Memorandum on AI, which is devoid of any specifics,” he added. “In turn, $ 5 million, which Google plans to spend on AI training for 1 million Poles is the amount so ridiculously lowthat I was initially convinced that I simply heard myself and it really was about $ 5 billion ” – wrote the journalist.

Talks with giants: We would like to remind you that Prime Minister Donald Tusk during the Monday speech at the WSE and the presentation of a new economic plan for Poland said, among others, that our country is conducting “advanced talks with technological giants: Microsoft, Amazon, IBM Google”

Google tools will help in deregulation? – thanks to cooperation with Google, we are able to provide tools, mainly in the area of ​​artificial intelligence, which can be very effective in deregulation – reconstruction and modernization of the economy and administration. I will talk about this tomorrow with young Polish scholars and entrepreneurs – meanwhile Prime Minister Tusk argued during the Thursday conference with the head of Google. “Polish Development Fund, the Operator of the National Cloud and Google Cloud have signed a letter of intent on cooperation in the field of AI. They jointly develop a development plan for the key sectors of the Polish economy: cyber security, healthcare and energy, based on AI,” – says the concern in a message sent to our editorial office .

Earlier investments: Let’s add that The company in 2022 announced the allocation of $ 700 millioni.e. about PLN 2.7 billion, for the purchase and development of The Warsaw Hub’s office complex. In turn, in 2021, the Pichai Sundar announced in Poland worth almost $ 2 billion – about PLN 8 billion – an infrastructure investment in Google Cloud Region Warsaw.

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Sources: Donald Tusk and Sundar Pichai – joint press conference, Janusz Cieszyński (), Sylwia Czubkowska (), Daniel Maikowski ()