The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced an envelope of 200 billion euros to stimulate the emerging AI industry in the EU.
The European Union will devote 200 billion euros to investments in AI in order to catch up with flourishing technological ecosystems of the United States and China.
“I hear that Europe is late in the race, because the United States or China have already taken ahead. I do not agree, because the race for AI is far from ‘Be finished “said Ms. Von Der Leyen Tuesday morning, during the closing of the Paris Summit on the AI organized by the French President, Emmanuel Macron.
These investments are intended to help EU companies to develop more advanced AI systems following the appearance of popular IA chatbots such as Chatgpt and Chinese Deepseek.
The announcement was warmly welcomed by many start-ups present at Station F, an incubator in Paris.
“One of the things they have shown is that the biggest companies are not the only ones concerned. There is a lot to do. We have a lot of innovation, many people who find things More efficiently, faster, by respecting more the regulations we have here “insisted Yacine Jernite, head of automatic learning and the company at Hugging Face, a Franco-American company specializing in AI.
The EU was one of the first powers to adopt full regulations In matters of AI, such as AI Act.
But according to American vice-president JD Vance, this strict regulatory environment will only be slow down any form of cooperation with the EUhe said on Tuesday during his speech in Paris.
While the Paris summit ended inadoption of a declarationsigned by 61 countries for an “inclusive” and “ethical” AI, The United States and the United Kingdom have distinguished themselves by refusing to sign it.
Some IA experts believe, however, that European companies must give up some of these rules if they want to be more competitive
“What we need is European entrepreneurs working with American technologies, and then we will at least share power. We share income. But if we do nothing and we want to act alone, we will fail because That we do not have what it is necessary. , accept them and cooperate with them, because the enemy is not the United States “explained Fabian Westerheide, a German expert in AI and long -standing supporter of a strengthening of the IA ecosystem in the EU.
