- The European Union has launched a comprehensive AI Action Plan to strengthen its technological sovereignty and reduce reliance on US and Chinese AI ecosystems.
- The plan will mobilize over €1 billion in funding from existing EU programs to accelerate homegrown AI development, focusing on defense, healthcare, and manufacturing.
- As part of the initiative, the EU will establish AI Factories, Data Labs, and compute infrastructure to support innovation and improve accessibility to European-built models.
- The strategy emphasizes that dependencies across the AI stack—from infrastructure to frontier models—pose economic and security risks, urging nations to invest in interoperable and ethical AI systems.
- The “AI Continent Action Plan” also promotes public–private collaboration, creation of regulatory sandboxes, and programs to nurture AI talent and startups across member states.
Sources: ETCIO / Economic Times | Innovation News Network