Paris (Reuters) -French president Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday, on the eve of the Paris Summit on Artificial Intelligence (IA), 109 billion euros in investments in France in this sector from French companies and foreign.
“For us France, we announce tomorrow to this summit 109 billion euros in investments in artificial intelligence,” he said on France 2.
This envelope includes investment in AI from the United Arab Emirates announced last week for an amount of up to 50 billion euros.
The Canadian Brookfield announced in the newspaper La Tribune on Sunday the release of 20 billion euros to develop projects related to AI in France – 15 billion in the development of data centers (Data Centers) and five billion In infrastructure dedicated to data transfer, storage fleas and renewable energy.
Political leaders and entrepreneurs around the world meet in Paris for a summit for action on artificial intelligence intended to take the measure of this technological revolution.
“We want to be and we want to invent, otherwise we will depend on the others,” said Emmanuel Macron, who notably said that 100,000 young people would soon be trained each year for AI technologies, against 40,000 currently.
(Elizabeth Pineau report)
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