Artificial Intelligence: 10 Proposals for Success (Medef)

Summary

• In May 2024, the President of the Republic announced additional funding of €500 million for AI R&D projects.p.7
• The AI Tour de France ran 20 stages and brought together more than 3,000 participants.p.8
• The first proposal is to create the 'France & IA' investment fund of €10 billion, with annual investment of €5 billion over 5 years.p.12
• The MOOC 'Objectif IA' has already led to 210,000 certifications and aims to train 1 million people by the end of 2025.p.13
• The global AI market, worth $207 billion in 2023, could exceed $500 billion by 2028.p.16
• The AI Commission estimates a GDP increase of €250 to €420 billion in 2034 attributable to AI deployment in France.p.16
• The Stargate project aims to invest at least $500 billion in US infrastructure over four years.p.17

Key insights

1. The hearings involved 30 experts over 50 hours across 8 sectors, producing 25 proposals including 10 main ones.p.8
2. Proposal 2 calls for the massive deployment of data centres in France with a 'major national interest project' status.p.12
3. Proposal 3 is to deploy an 'AI directory' of standardised AI tools adapted to SME needs.p.12
4. The proposals aim to train 300,000 French people in AI each year, including 100,000 experts and 100,000 employees.p.13
5. Proposal 10 encourages companies to integrate a Chief data and AI officer into their organisation.p.14
6. The US provides most of the amounts invested in AI, 67.2 billion in 2023, against 1.69 billion in France.p.17