National AI strategy: requirements, deadlines and compliance actions
Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle (National AI Strategy, phases 1–3, 2018–2025)
What is National AI strategy?
Launched in March 2018 following the Villani report, the national AI strategy funds research institutes (3IA then AI clusters), talent, compute and business adoption. The second phase (2021) focused on training and diffusion into the economy; the third phase (2024–2025) emphasises sovereign generative-AI models, compute and public-sector use, and framed France's hosting of the AI Action Summit in February 2025.
Who does it apply to?
Government investment and coordination programme; no obligations on private organisations.
- Sectors
- Cross-sector / all sectors
When do the requirements apply?
2018-03-29: strategy launched; 2021-11-08: phase 2; 2025-02-10: AI Action Summit in Paris.
Phase 1 announced 29 March 2018; phase 2 November 2021; phase 3 2024.
Official sources
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Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle
Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique · Tier 1 source
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