Technologies. Bruno Le Maire advocates a “European Artificial Intelligence Community”

The French Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire “proposes the creation of a European community of artificial intelligence” (AI) in order to better coordinate the means to innovate in this field, he declared in an interview with Sunday Newspaper.

“This project would bring together the best researchers, the best scientists, the best start-ups, the best data centers around common principles, to prevent security and cultural abuses,” he specifies.

“France is a step ahead in AI”, according to him, and “it must guide Europe towards an ambitious project”, launches Bruno Le Maire in a three-page interview that looks like a political program, published on Sunday.

Mistral AI as an example

A symbol of success in this field, the French company Mistral AI, one of the two champions of AI in Europe, is cited as an example. Mistral AI “found in our country a dynamic ecosystem, funds, a cultural model, a desire. (…) France will remain the leader in Europe in AI if we further simplify our procedures, if we make the necessary capital available, if we defend our open source model,” affirms Bruno Le Maire.

Mistral AI received encouragement from the president Emmanuel Macron during its launch and Bruno Le Maire recently insisted on his desire to see the emergence of “an AI model that is specific to France (…)” and creates jobs. “Europe has all the assets to win the AI ​​battle,” assures the French minister.

“Now is the time for the European Union to embrace innovation and risk, prioritizing massive investment before regulation. What do we want to become? Producers of new knowledge? Or simple customers of Meta and Google? », asks Bruno Le Maire.

“Europe is our best protection”, believes the Minister of the Economy, recalling several examples, the fruit of “European solidarity”. He also wishes to “accelerate” and “implement” a “new strategy” of European economic sovereignty.