Annexes to COM(2024)28 - Boosting startups and innovation in trustworthy artificial intelligence - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2024)28 - Boosting startups and innovation in trustworthy artificial intelligence. |
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| document | COM(2024)28 |
| date | January 24, 2024 |
The Union continues also its long-standing international engagement in different rules-based, multilateral fora and international organisations, notably the UN, OECD, the Council of Europe, G7, G20 and the Global Partnership on AI.
A sense of urgency in implementing the actions presented in this Communication is necessary, because the battle may not be to the strong, but this race will definitely be to the swift.
1 For example, models learn from a vast amount of text to understand the structure and context of language without explicit instructions about what each piece of text is about. Models can therefore learn and generalise their understanding of the world and are capable to handle new and diverse situations.
2 This content generation spans text, images, sounds, and even code, such as for programming or gene sequencing.
3 The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier, June 14, 2023, https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-AI-the-next-productivity-frontier#introduction
4 https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/06/28/the-global-artificial-intelligence-index/
5 JOIN(2023) 20 final and C(2023)2113
6 The proposal for a Council Recommendation on enhancing research security (COM(2024)26 final) will be particularly relevant in this context
7 When referring to AI startups, this Communication covers startups developing AI models, as well as those that finetune them and integrate them in systems and applications.
8 COM(2020) 66 final
9 Directive (EU) 2019/1024
10 Regulation(EU) 2022/868
11 Regulation(EU) 2023/2854
12 Commission Staff Working Document on Common European data spaces, SWD(2024)XXX
13 ‘Generative AI in the European Startup Landscape 2024’, appliedAI Institute for Europe, https://www.appliedai- institute.de/en/hub/2024-generative-ai-study
14 C(2023)3215.
15 The regulatory framework also includes the Machinery Regulation ensuring the safety of AI-powered machines, including robots. (Regulation (EU) 2023/1230))
16 https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-pact
17 https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/our-supercomputers_en
18 COM(2021) 205 final
19 The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is bringing together 33 participating states, including all Member States, the Commission and three private associations.
20 https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/index_en
21 LEONARDO in Bologna, Italy, LUMI in Kajaani, Finland, and MareNostrum 5 in Barcelona, Spain.
22 Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
23 Access to the EuroHPC supercomputers is also available to the public sector including for testing and evaluation purposes of generative AI models.
24 https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/activities/testing-and-experimentation-facilities
25 https://aiod.eu/
26 https://european-digital-innovation-hubs.ec.europa.eu/
27 https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/results-regional-innovation-valleys-calls-are-strong-interest-member-states-and-associated-countries-2023-10-19_en
28 For example, the proposed European Health Data Space (EHDS) will facilitate access to quality data to be used in the training, testing, and validation of generative AI in health. https://health.ec.europa.eu/ehealth-digital-health-and-care/european-health-data-space_en
29 As outlined in the Media and Audiovisual Action Plan, COM(2020) 784 final
30 COM(2023)751 final
31 Communication from the Commission, Towards a Common European Tourism Data Space: boosting data sharing and innovation across the tourism ecosystem, 2023/C 263/01
32 https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/open-science/european-open-science-cloud-eosc_en
33 The European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) is an instrument established under the Digital Decade Policy Programme to offer Member States a stable framework to implement multi-country projects. Its main advantages are: legal personality, flexibility of design and relative speed in setting it up. This allows Member States participating in the EDIC to pool funds for large-scale, long-term digital infrastructures. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/edic
34 https://aiboost-project.eu/large-ai-grand-challenge/
35 https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/activities/work-programmes-digital
36 Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/activities/testing-and-experimentation-facilities
37 With the adoption of the AI Act, one regulatory sandbox will be set up in all Member States. These sandboxes will provide a controlled environment for the development, testing and validation of innovative AI systems, under the supervision of competent authorities. In the sandboxes, companies will receive guidance on regulatory expectations and best practices to assist the future implementation of their systems.
38 https://oecd.ai/en/data?selectedArea=investments-in-ai-and-data&selectedVisualization=vc-investments-in-generative-ai-by-country
39 EIC Accelerator - https://eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-funding-opportunities/eic-accelerator_en;
40 https://finance.ec.europa.eu/capital-markets-union-and-financial-markets/capital-markets-union_en
41 https://aiskills.eu/
42 In Europe, 16% of AI-skilled individuals are women.
43 The Networks of Excellence in AI bring together the best research teams in Europe from academia and industry to join forces in addressing the major challenges hampering the deployment of AI-based solutions. https://www.ai4europe.eu/Network-of-Excellence
44 AI accounts today for around 15% of all ERC projects
45 The EIT Campus currently includes over 200 courses in 28 languages and involves 164 education, research, and business partners, https://eit-campus.eu/
46 A New European Innovation Agenda, COM (2022)332, https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/support-policy-making/shaping-eu-research-and-innovation-policy/new-european-innovation-agenda_en
47 EIT Deep tech talent initiative, https://www.eitdeeptechtalent.eu
48 COM(2021)350 final
49 This will build on the work of the European Clusters Collaboration platform and the Enterprise Europe Network.
50 European Transition Pathways Platform will monitor the green and digital transformations across various industrial ecosystems, and foster collaboration to accelerate the transition.
51 The EU robotics industry, with 82,000 industrial robots installed in 2021, is the second-largest global region after China. The European Service Robots Market is set for significant expansion, projecting a 14% CAGR by 2026, with the EU playing a prominent role across diverse sectors. European service robot manufacturers hold a significant position in the global market, constituting approximately 290 out of the 700 registered companies supplying service robots. https://ifr.org/
52 Boosted by the world largest civilian robotics programme in the world initiated by the Commission.
53 The ADRA PPP is benefiting from EUR 2.6 billion Horizon Europe and private funding through 2021-2027, https://adr-association.eu/
54 https://sifted.eu/articles/europe-generative-ai-startups
55 https://ryver.ai/
56 https://www.corti.ai/
57 European Virtual Human Twins Initiative - https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/virtual-human-twins
58
59 Regulation (EU) 2017/745 on medical devices and Regulation (EU) 2017/746 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices
60 Cradle — Design Better Proteins, Cradle – Cradle raises $24M Series A and signs partnerships with industry leaders https://www.cradle.bio/blog/cradle-raises-24m-series-a-and-signs-partnerships-with-industry-leaders
61 https://northvolt.com/articles/northvolt-machine-learning/, https://www.ft.com/content/577920d3-1c60-4105-9503-80e655280d3a
62 Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking - https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/institutions-and-bodies/search-all-eu-institutions-and-bodies/clean-hydrogen-joint-undertaking_en
63 https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/battery-2030-inventing-batteries-future The flagship is supported through Horizon Europe, in the context of the Batt4EU Partnership initiative.
64 https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/bosch-to-use-generative-ai-in-manufacturing-260806.html
65 https://ai-matters.eu/
66 The EIT is running a series of end-to-end digitalised production testbeds in several EU Member States where startups, scale-ups, research and technology organisations, universities and industry partners can collaborate and test their ground-breaking products and digital services.
67 https://prod.ucwe.capgemini.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Final-Web-Version-Report-Harnessing-the-Value-of-Gen-AI.1.pdf
68 This initiative represents a total investment of around €250 million in 2023-2024 by the EU, Member States and industry, across the Chips JU, CCAM and 2ZERO partnerships.
69 https://unreasonablegroup.com/ventures/briink
70 https://destination-earth.eu/
71 https://repli5.com/
72 COM(2023) 442 final
73 The European Citizens’ Panel on Virtual Worlds provided valuable input; European Citizens’ Panel on Virtual Worlds : Final Report: https://citizens.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2023-11/ECP%20on%20Virtual%20Worlds_Final%20Report.pdf
74 https://citcom.ai/
75 https://eurocities.eu/latest/launch-of-european-funding-instrument-to-upscale-digital-twins-towards-the-citiverse-through-living-in-eu/
76 Europol’s Innovation Lab’s Observatory has produced reports on both deepfake generation and exploitation of large language models for criminal purposes, www.europol.europa.eu
77 https://www.gatewatcher.com/en/
78
79 https://www.agrifoodtef.eu/
80 Detailed bibliometric analysis is showing that the EU is among the leaders in AI for science. https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/knowledge-publications-tools-and-data/publications/all-publications/trends-use-ai-science_en
81 The policy brief “Artificial Intelligence in Science” shows that the EU is the global leader in terms of laboratory robots facilitating scientific discoveries, https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/industrial-research-and-innovation/key-enabling-technologies/artificial-intelligence-ai-science_en
82 https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/446030-artificial-intelligence-expanding-scientific-boundaries-and-enhancing-innovation
83 https://scientificadvice.eu/advice/artificial-intelligence-in-science/
84 2019/C 387/01
85 https://www.heidelberg.de/Digitale-Stadt/startseite.html
86 https://aleph-alpha.com/
87 The European Union and the United States of America strengthen cooperation on research in Artificial Intelligence and computing for the Public Good | Shaping Europe’s digital future (europa.eu).
88 https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/european-union-and-united-states-america-strengthen-cooperation-research-artificial-intelligence
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