France to invest €655 mln in AI, set up common chatbot for all state services
The funding will support a chatbot for 1 million civil servants, a public health assistant for Ameli, and new computing and research spending.
- On Monday, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced €655m for artificial intelligence, funding a "sovereign" conversational assistant for roughly a million public servants to streamline daily administrative work.
- France has spent the past two years arguing that Europe should own its AI infrastructure rather than leasing capacity from American firms, driving this push for state-controlled technology.
- Beyond the chatbot, the €655m allocation funds a dedicated public-health assistant for Ameli and a new public-data platform, sitting within a wider €109bn private investment push initiated in Paris last year.
- While Mistral is the most obvious beneficiary as Europe's answer to American labs, officials did not specify a vendor, describing desired capabilities instead of naming suppliers.
- No timeline was provided for the assistant's rollout, as details regarding fund allocation across infrastructure and projects will likely follow as individual components move to tender.
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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday a further investment of €655 million to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence as well as an AI programme for public service employees. France is keen to build strategic autonomy in the face of competition from China and the United States.
655 million euros. This is the envelope announced by the government to accelerate the development of the French AI. "We can undergo this revolution. Or we can drive it," said... Article IA: Sébastien Lecornu announces 655 million euros of investments and the launch of a sovereign "ChatGPT" appeared first on Current Values.
Sébastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday 16 June 655 million euros of additional investments in artificial intelligence and a generalisation of its use by state agents.
The government is moving ahead on artificial intelligence, with an investment of €655 million to deploy a "sovereign" chatbot to a million public officials and to strengthen French technological independence.
The French government is going to invest 655 million euros in artificial intelligence (AI) and wants to set up its own chatbot for all government services. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu wrote this on Tuesday in a message on X, just before the start of the "Viva Tech" conference in Paris.
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