“What we wanted, under the leadership of Clara Chappaz, is to take a new stage in the national IA strategy”, with the “will to emphasize the dissemination and deployment of AI in companies,” said his office to the press. The plan, whose total amount of the endowment has not been communicated, is declined in several components, around AID awareness, training, as well as support for companies, and partly resumes already existing measures and content.
Nearly a dozen shares have been announced, including the creation of a bank guarantee fund to finance projects up to 500,000 euros over ten years, and financing up to 40 % IA “diagnostics” for nearly 5,000 SMEs and ETIs. A catalog listing French and European AI solutions will also be posted.
Ambassadors and academy: AI at hand?
Other measures, such as the mobilization of 300 “IA ambassadors”, and the launch of a platform called “The Academy of AI”, bringing together already existing training and tutorials, have also been announced. In matters of AI adoption in the private sector, France “is not ahead,” said the minister’s office.
