President Emmanuel Macron during a summit on artificial intelligence organized at the Élysée, May 21, 202 in Paris (POOL/AFP/Yoan VALAT)
Investment funds, additional credits for training, “acculturation” mission of the French: President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday a new series of measures to make France a champion of artificial intelligence (AI).
The “battle” for AI must be fought around “five major areas: talents, infrastructure, uses, investment and governance”, declared the French head of state on the occasion of a gathering of major players in the sector, on the eve of the opening of the VivaTech show in Paris.
Emmanuel Macron thus announced an additional 400 million euros to finance the training of artificial intelligence specialists through nine centers of excellence, “AI clusters”.
The objective is to go from 40,000 people trained per year to 100,000, he detailed, in front of sector leaders such as Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, and Yann Le Cun, director of the laboratory of AI of Meta, gathered at the Elysée.
Emmanuel Macron also unveiled the launch before the end of the year of a new investment fund, subscribed to a quarter by the State, in order to support the least well financed and most technologically linked sectors. AI, electronic chips or even the cloud.
To facilitate the adoption of this new technology by the French, the president also entrusted a mission of “acculturation of citizens” to the National Digital Council, which will have a budget of 10 million euros to organize debates, cafes around artificial intelligence across France.
President Emmanuel Macron during a summit on artificial intelligence organized at the Élysée, May 21, 202 in Paris (POOL/AFP/Yoan VALAT)
The country will also host a new artificial intelligence evaluation center, which will aim to become one of the largest centers in the world, added Mr. Macron.
After the United Kingdom in 2023 and South Korea currently, France will also organize the next edition of the international artificial intelligence summit on February 10 and 11, 2025.
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