Prise de parole du Président Emmanuel Macron au sommet Adopt AI à Paris.

M. le Président, adoptez aille. Merci, M. le Président. Merci beaucoup. Je pense que ce sera plus efficace si je parle en anglais. Et donc pardonnez-moi pour les Français, mais je pense que tout le monde est anglophone. So, ministers, excellencies, ambassadeurs, members of parliament, start-upers, investors, industry bodies, ladies and gentlemen, look, I'm extremely happy to be here with you. Tonight, once again, nine months after our summit for AI in this very place. And I see that some of you are quite cold. So I want to thank you for waiting for me after such a day and tomorrow you will work again. And I just wanted to share a few words about AI and what we want to do.

And this Adopt AI summit is very important for our ministers here with me and for the French government and our country. I will not be long, but I first want to remind us all our assets. And for those who work, invest on entrepreneurs in AI, I want to insist on the fact that the French territory, France, is clearly a place to invest and deploy your activities. First, because we have a lot of talents and we are increasing our investment, if I may say, on human capital. and we will go from more or less 40,000 per year being trained in AI to 100,000 per year. And all the AI clusters are dedicated to this ambition.

And I know that some of you are in charge of AI clusters, Grand Est, and some others, I met them right now. So this is the first pillar. We do are recognized as having a lot of talents and we will increase this effort. Second, ecosystem. This AI clusters I mentioned are extremely important ecosystem and we are accelerating. And thanks to a lot of startups and already unicorns and even more being present here. So we stop companies such as Artifact, for sure, with organizing this event, Mistral, Echymetrix, Alan, Shift, Doctolib. I cannot mention everybody. Jan Lequin seems to want to create a new startup and he succeeded in creating startup. And we will convince him to do it in France.

And it's not just a French ecosystem. It's a European ecosystem. And I just met Denmark, Ireland, Italy, but I know that all the European countries, even Argentina is here, but we have a very special integrated ecosystem with Germany. And Germany is the guest of honor of this first edition. And clearly, last week, I was in Germany, in Berlin for a summit, and some of you were present. So in Berlin, on digital sovereignty for the Europeans. So it shows you the strength and the integration of this ecosystem. And please look at Europe as an integrated ecosystem. And I will revert on this idea. Third point, when we speak about AI and deploying AI much more rapidly, you need energy.

and this is an asset of the French place. We produce low carbon pilotable energy thanks to our nuclear capacities. And last year, we exported 90 TWh. So it means we have clearly available capacity to make much more AI. And obviously, the fourth point is infrastructure and computing power. Let's be honest. As Europeans, we were lagging behind. But we are recovering. And it was one of the first ambition of the summit in February. We got 109 billion euros in private investment in France in February, and we are delivering this agenda. And this is due to this asset I just mentioned.

And this is due to the fact that we launched a series of fast-track sites in order to plug very rapidly some industrial sites in order to be plugged and deploy new capacities. As of today, 23 sites are already secured for a project. And I'm glad to announce that a fifth fast-track site is going to be made available in Dunkerque with more than 700 megawatts of capacity. So as you can see, we deliver. And from the private sector, we delivered already since February with Iliad investment in Montreux, set to be delivered by 2029 but confirmed with the first capacities being deployed. Brooksville's 15 billion euros investment in Cambrai, et cetera, et cetera.

And from the public sector, with France's first exascale supercomputers, like Alice Recoque, on top of the upcoming European AI gigafactories announced in this place last February. So as you can see, we announced a 109 billion package and we are delivering and accelerating, but in concrete and real terms as well. And I mean, for the non-European investors present in this room, it's very important to have in mind that in this place, you have low carbon and pilotable energy, and we know how to plug very rapidly this place. And we are not deploying huge projects without energy available or creating ad hoc capacities with, I would say, bad energy.

We do it, we secure it, and it's reliable for the future. And it's super important because it's, I think, a differentiating point. But now, we want very clearly to accelerate. And first of all, and this is the importance of this summit, and I want to thank the organizers and once again the Grand Palais for hosting us, it's clearly to accelerate AI adoption. This is a top priority, obviously on top of training, deploying computing capacities and so on. We have to accelerate the AI adoption, as the name of the summit suggests. and this is a priority for France and Europe. We need to be better in the downstream segment of AI. AI enhanced cloud services, solutions, applications, etc. Why?

Because first, it will secure a lot of talents and a lot of champions in AI because we will secure clearly the deployment and the downstream segment. And to be honest and lucid, the US and China are at the forefront today of innovation, LNM capacities and so on. But if we accelerate in terms of adoption, we will help the European champions and we will attract new champions because we will have a core basis to this deployment. And second, this is the best way to fertilize the rest of the economy in terms of productivity because the adoption is just the best way to change our life in concrete terms, in public sector and efficiency, in energy, in healthcare, etc., etc.

So clearly, it's a win-win approach. This movement is for everyone. We need all firms from multinational corporations to small and medium-sized companies to integrate these solutions into their processes and business models. We need our public services to embrace AI much more. We need local authorities to deploy massively and we need everyone to do so as well. And of course, this adoption must be with Made in EU services as much as possible. This is the goal of the OZELIA plan. We launched last summer. So it was an initiative of the French government with a very clear target.

By 2030, 100% of large groups, 80% of SMEs and intermediate-sized firms, and 50% of very small enterprises must integrate AI into their processes. And we do that with the network of 300 AI ambassadors just announced, our minister, and with training and by supporting businesses in identification of the relevant AI solutions. On the private sector, we had last week a lot of announcements showing that we are moving in the right direction regarding adoption. And I would not be obviously totally complete, but I just want to mention some of them. AIverse announced a strategic partnership with Stark in defense. MBDA and Rheinmetall announced a partnership with Spread AI technology.

Earlier this year, Renault finalized a strategic partnership with Wondercraft in AI and robotics. Industrial groups are moving in all the different sectors to adopt AI, and we have to accelerate this move. Adoption is also for the public sector. It has the potential to greatly improve the quality and efficiency of our services. And our ministers here being present are very much focused on this issue. And we need to do much more than we are today. Deploying AI solutions should be a very high priority of all public managers. And I'm counting on the ministers in charge of AI digital and public administration to push and implement this agenda as quickly as possible.

and we have some key pillars for this strategy. First, leveraging private excellence and services. We integrate the best private sector AI solutions into public projects within a controlled and open framework. And our strategy consists in multi-sourcing technologies on multiple private actors without locking ourselves into a single provider.

It's very important, and let's be honest once again, our weakness during the past decades, not just for AI, but a lot of software approach, was number one, to go first to non-European solution and buy U.S., which is crazy when you are European, and second, to prefer invented here and to take years with crazy programs where you can contract with a private solutions with people in charge and being expert of that. So we will buy AI solutions, design, invented by private sector in France and Europe. It will be our approach. It's much more efficient for both of us. Second, deploy quickly in the state administration, but also in hospitals, public operators.

AI deployment and data sharing should be the rule. And we already have examples. a letter of intention signed between Doctrine and the French government to modernize the state's working tools in the legal fields, particularly to improve the work of state lawyers outside jurisdictions while ensuring the security, sovereignty and regulatory compliance. We will progressively deploy as well a sovereign conversational agenda for all civil servants through Mistral AI. France Travail uses AI to improve eligibility of the unemployed for unemployment benefits and return to work assistance.

In January 2024, we started to deploy AI in France service, and it can so significantly improve in the public sector our health system. This is what we announced in Berlin last week with this partnership between Auchin, Gustav Roussy in France and Charité Hospital in Germany. As I mentioned, we want to do it as well with local authorities. And I know that Caisse des dépôts through the Banque des territoires is working on a massive plan to do so. And we want to be very ambitious in this topic. and by the end of 2026, we will have trained roughly 50,000 civil servants through a combination of online courses, boot camps and workshops.

And clearly, adapting the positioning of our inter-ministerial directorate for digital affairs, called DINUM, whose role is now to act as the CTO of the state, ensuring that our investments are optimized, secure and aligned with our strategic goals. here are some key elements in order to deliver and give you more substance on how to adopt AI for the public sector. And we will accelerate big time. And we have to be inspired by what... I mean, what some neighbors did very well. I mentioned the case of Luxembourg. Luxembourg contracted a very big approach and a very big contract with Mr. AI. The Greek government is working hard as well with Mr. AI.

So we want to develop this type of approach, but with this methodology and this first example I just mentioned. Let me finish by a few words on the fact that all this strategy in terms of talents, ecosystem, infrastructure, and now adoption, is the one we are deploying for France. But this is the one we are pushing at the European scale. And very clearly, if we want to deliver our agenda in AI, we have to do it to implement it at the European scale with, I would say, three principles of action. Number one, simplification. The Commission has already made a few announcements.

Last week, following our summit in Berlin with GDPR and some existing regulations, we pushed a Franco-German agenda very clear on that. But simplification is key for all of us if we want in a certain way to dismantle the tariffs we inflicted to our own economies. And part of the simplification is as well as the deepening of the single market. The best simplification is the creation of the 28th regime for innovative companies and the implementation in real terms of our single digital market. Second, innovation. We have to accelerate. We need more investments.

And this is why we are launching a new important project of common European interest to promote the financing of high impact research development and first industrial deployment projects in AI technologies. And we will also need to invest much more in quantum and cheap technologies. And in order to deliver this agenda, we will push for more European investment at the aggregated level in our budgets, but as well, much more private investment. and this is why the capital market union is so important. And third, protection. I want our digital markets to be more balanced and protected from dominant players that tend to abuse their market powers and prevent contestability and competition.

And in particular, at the European level, we want to make sure we add sovereignty criteria to fund the upcoming EU AI gigafactories. And let's encourage the Commission in leveraging the DMA framework so it to regulate the gatekeepers AI services that are part of core platform services. But what we want to deploy, what we want to defend as an agenda at the European scale is the EU preference. In China, you have a Chinese exclusivity. In US, you have a US preference. The European Union is the only place in the world where you have a non-European preference de facto. And this is super important for the governments but as well for the large corporates.

When there is an existing competitive European solution, please adopt it and make it clear for us as policymakers in our rules that we have to prefer European solutions. It's not a protectionist approach but this is the only way to develop our own ecosystem and to remain sovereign. Because if all the others adopt a regional or a national preference, they arrive after having secured their domestic market and they conquer the European market. So we have to stop being naive. And we do have European champions in a lot of fields. You are part of them.

We have to help you by being much more aggressive and much more ambitious in terms of adoption and through public procurement at the national and European level. But we have to protect much more the European players. So simplification, innovation and protection are the three pillars of this European approach and we signed as a perfect illustration of that last week, a letter of intent signed between Mistral, SAP and France, French and German governments for a public-private European partnership. Perfect illustration of this strategy of European preference, consistent public procurement and perfect cooperation between a young unicorn in AI and a well-established large-cap in software.

This is exactly what we want to replicate. Adoptea is not just the name of the summit, but this is already the name of the summit. It is for Europe and France a vital necessity for all areas of business. And I want to thank Artifact and its CEO, Vincent Luciani, for initiating this summit. And let's make it an annual international event, highlighting business partnerships and opportunities in the artificial intelligence sector. And I want to congratulate all of you because I know this is the end of the day and you're cold, but I know your energy. I know the energy of the French tech. I know the energy of our AI ecosystem and I know the energy of all the teams being invited in Paris.

We do believe that we can change the world with this innovation. And we know as well that we do it at the service of a more efficient public services, for more efficient, more productive companies, but at the service of a certain vision and a certain approach of our humanity and the world. And this is why France and Europe are the right place to invest and deploy these solutions. Thank you to this summit. Thank you, thank you to all of you for your participation and your energy. And vive Adoptea is a summit and let's make it now a big international annual event. Thank you very much.