The European Commission He has given the departure gun to his IA continent action planwith which he wants to climb positions in leadership in international level. According to the president of the European Commission, Úrsula von der Layen, its purpose is to transform the large traditional European industries, and their talent assets, in innovation and acceleration engines of AI.
This plan will enhance EU innovation capabilities in AI through articulated actions and policies around five fundamental pillars. The first is the construction of a computing infrastructure and large -scale AI data, through a network of AI factories.
Thirteen of these factories are already being implemented around the first level supercomputrs in Europe. Its mission will be to support emerging companies of AI, the industry of the sector and EU researchers in the development of AI models and applications.
The EU will also contribute to the creation of Gigafactories of AI, great magnitude facilities equipped with about 100,000 last -generation AI chips, four times more than the current AI factories. They will have a large computing capacity and data centers to form and develop large -scale complex models. These gigafactories will lead the following wave of border models, and will maintain EU strategic autonomy in critical industrial and scientific sectors. Of course, for this it will be necessary to have public and private investments.
Private investment in gigafactories will have additional incentives through the Investai initiative, which will mobilize 20,000 million euros for the development of up to five Gigafactías of AI in different parts of the EU.
In addition, with the objective of stimulating private investment in capacity and cloud data centers, the European Commission will propose a law for the development of cloud computing and AI. Its objective is to triple at least the capacity of EU data centers from here to five or seven years. Within these centers, those that are considered highly sustainable will have priority.
The second pillar of the announced action plan is the increase in access to large volumes of high quality data, something essential to boost innovation in AI. For this, data laboratories will be created in the AI factories to gather and preserve large amounts of high quality data from different sources. This same year of initiating an EU data strategy, in order to generate a internal data market that allows the AI solutions to expand.
As for the third pillar of the Action Plan, it implies the development of algorithms and promotion of the adoption of AI in EU strategic sectors. To do this, in the coming months the AI use strategy will launch, in which the European Innovation Infrastructure in AI will have an important role. Especially the factories of AI and European Centers for Digital Innovation.
The reinforcement of capacities and talent in AI is the fourth pillar of the plan. To meet the demand for expert talent in AI, the European Commission will facilitate the international hiring of experts and researchers highly qualified in AI through different initiatives: the reserve of talents, the Marie Sklodowska-Curie action “MSCA Choose Europe” and the scholarship programs on the academy of capacities in AI, which will be created soon.
These initiatives will contribute to the opening of legal migration roads for highly qualified workers in the third -party AI sector, as well as the attraction to Europe of researchers and experts in European AI. The Commission will also develop educational and training programs on the generative and the generative sectors.
Finally, the regulatory simplification will entail the implementation of an assistance service on the IA regulations, which will help companies to comply with it. It will serve as a central contact point and information window and guidance on said regulation.
In addition, the Action Plan, the Commission has opened two public consultations until June 4. The first invites all interested parties to share their views on the Law of Cloud and AI Computer Development, and the second versa on the AI use strategy to determine the priorities of the interested parties, the challenges that the incorporation of the AI and the relevance of the solutions and approaches of the proposed policies, as well as the additional measures to guarantee the simple and fluid application of the simple application of the simple and fluid application of the simple and fluid.
In May a third public consultation will open on the Union data strategy, and in parallel, LCommission will organize dialogues with representatives of companies and with the public sector to help shape the AI application strategy.
