--- title: "Eric Schmidt: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI" url: https://daily.dev/posts/eric-schmidt-why-america-needs-an-apollo-program-for-the-age-of-ai-51gko3ggo source_url: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/13/1092322/why-america-needs-an-apollo-program-for-the-age-of-ai/ type: article source: "MIT Technology Review" published: 2024-05-13T08:59:31.418Z updated: 2024-05-13T08:59:29.839Z tags: ["ai", "computing"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Eric Schmidt: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Eric Schmidt argues that America needs a national compute strategy similar to the Apollo program for the age of AI, highlighting the importance of advanced computing, the need for dedicated government AI supercomputers, and the significance of a talent strategy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#computing](https://daily.dev/tags/computing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/eric-schmidt-why-america-needs-an-apollo-program-for-the-age-of-ai-51gko3ggo)