Wiener SB 1047 introduction release 2024-02-07 (web)

Citation

Office of Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco). “Senator Wiener Introduces Legislation to Ensure Safe Development of Large-Scale Artificial Intelligence Systems and Support AI Innovation in California.” Press release, Sacramento, February 7, 2024. https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-introduces-legislation-ensure-safe-development-large-scale-artificial-1. Read 2026-10-20.

Bottom line

SB 1047 was the 2024 bill that came before SB 53. Its release says the bill “establishing CalCompute”, a cluster for “startups, researchers, and community groups”.
It adds “community groups” as users. SB 53’s statute names no users.
SB 1047 also required cloud companies “to provide transparent pricing and avoid price discrimination”.

Background

It followed the SB 294 intent bill (Wiener SB 294 announcement 2023-09-13). Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1047 in September 2024 (SB-53 Senate GO analysis 2025-03-25 (web)). SB 53 carried the CalCompute provisions forward in 2025.

Key claims

CalCompute established (lede). “The bill also invests in the future of California’s AI industry by establishing CalCompute, a public cloud computing cluster that will allow startups, researchers, and community groups to participate in the development of large-scale AI systems.”
Senator Wiener.

SB 1047 will also promote the growth of the AI industry by establishing CalCompute, a public AI research cluster that will allow startups, researchers, and community groups to participate in the development of large-scale AI systems. By providing a broad range of stakeholders with access to the AI development process, CalCompute will help align large-scale AI systems with the values and needs of California communities.
Research role. SB 1047 “creates a new public cloud-computing cluster, CalCompute, that will conduct research into the safe and secure deployment of large-scale AI models, while allowing smaller startups, researchers, and community groups to participate”.
Pricing. The bill “requires cloud-computing companies and frontier model developers to provide transparent pricing and avoid price discrimination.”
Training cost. Models at “10^26 flop would cost over $100,000,000 to train”.
Sponsors. “SB 1047 is sponsored by the Center For AI Safety Action Fund, Encode Justice, and Economic Security California.”
Teri Olle, Economic Security California.

The AI market is dominated by a handful of corporate actors and this essential legislation takes the first critical step in fostering greater innovation and openness to serve the public interest. With the development of a public cloud like CalCompute, we can harness the potential of AI for good, accessing data to advance the next breakthroughs in healthcare, technology and disaster response
Nathan Calvin, Center for AI Safety Action Fund. The state should make “sure AI innovations are accessible to academic researchers and startups.”
Evan Conrad, San Francisco Compute Company. “we’re excited to see support for academic research and startups within the bill.”
State context. The release cites Governor Newsom’s September 2023 Executive Order and the November 2023 GenAI report.

Evidence and method

An advocacy statement by the author and sponsors. It cites a survey of AI researchers and links to federal documents. It gives no data on CalCompute.

Limits

Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1047. It is legislative history for SB 53, not law.
The release does not say where CalCompute sits or who governs it.
The release names “Encode Justice”. Later SB 53 sources name “Encode” and “Encode AI”. This release does not say they are the same organization.

⚠️ Contradiction: The release says SB 1047 is “establishing CalCompute” and “creates a new public cloud-computing cluster”. Enacted § 11546.8 (a) establishes “a consortium that shall develop […] a framework for the creation of a public cloud computing cluster” (SB-53 Gov Code 11546.8).

⚠️ Contradiction: The release names “startups, researchers, and community groups” as users. Enacted subd. (f)(2)(D) asks the Report for “a process for determining which users and projects will be supported by CalCompute” (SB-53 Gov Code 11546.8). The statute names no user group.

Source file: wiki/sources/Wiener SB 1047 introduction release 2024-02-07 (web).md, updated 2026-10-20.