{"id":42308,"date":"2024-01-24T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=42308"},"modified":"2024-01-24T14:36:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:36:39","slug":"ai-innovation-package-launched-by-european-commission-to-support-startups-and-smes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/ai-innovation-package-launched-by-european-commission-to-support-startups-and-smes\/42308\/","title":{"rendered":"AI innovation package launched by European Commission to support startups and SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"
The AI innovation package will provide a broad range of measures to support AI<\/a> startups and innovation. It is set to include a proposal to provide privileged access to supercomputers to AI startups and the broader innovation community.<\/p>\n The launch of the package follows the political agreement<\/a> reached in December 2023 on the EU AI Act<\/a>. The Act is the first comprehensive law on Artificial Intelligence and will support the development of trustworthy AI in the EU.<\/p>\n The announcement of the new package is set to accelerate the Commission\u2019s commitment to foster growth in the technology sector.<\/p>\n The AI package contains measures to support AI startups and SMEs, including an amendment of the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI factories, a decision to establish an AI Office within the Commission, and an EU AI startup and innovation communication.<\/p>\n The amendment to set up AI factories will include:<\/p>\n Developing an AI office within the Commission will ensure the coordination of AI policy at the European level.<\/p>\n It will also provide a platform to supervise the implementation of the forthcoming AI Act.<\/p>\n The communication will outline the additional key activities:<\/p>\n As part of the AI innovation package, the commission is also establishing two European Digital Infrastructure Consortiums with a number of Member States, the Alliance for Language Technologies and the CitiVERSE EDIC.<\/p>\n The Commission has also adopted a communication outlining the Commission\u2019s own strategic approach to the use of AI.<\/p>\n With this vision, the Commission is preparing internally for the implementation of the EU AI Act. It includes concrete actions about how the Commission will build operational capacity to ensure the development of trustworthy AI.<\/p>\n The Commission will support EU public administrations in their own adoption and the use of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The European Commission has launched an AI innovation package to support European startups and SMEs in the development of trustworthy AI that respects EU rules and values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":42314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[830],"tags":[570],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat is included in the AI innovation package?<\/h3>\n
Setting up AI factories<\/h4>\n
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Establishing an AI office<\/h4>\n
EU AI startup and innovation communication<\/h4>\n
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AI@EC communication<\/h3>\n