# Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle (National AI Strategy, phases 1–3, 2018–2025)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: France
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Government of France (Ministry of the Economy, SGPI)
- **Adopted**: 2018-03-29

## In brief

National AI strategy is a non-binding national strategy of France, issued by the Government of France (Ministry of the Economy, SGPI). It was adopted on 29 March 2018. Government investment and coordination programme; no obligations on private organisations. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

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.

## Scope

Government investment and coordination programme; no obligations on private organisations.

## Key dates

2018-03-29: strategy launched; 2021-11-08: phase 2; 2025-02-10: AI Action Summit in Paris.

## Notes on dates

Phase 1 announced 29 March 2018; phase 2 November 2021; phase 3 2024.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0077 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0077; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/france-national-ai-strategy
- **Official source**: https://www.economie.gouv.fr/strategie-nationale-intelligence-artificielle
- **Source document**: Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle
- **Published by**: Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle (National AI Strategy, phases 1–3, 2018–2025)" [AIPT-POL-0077, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0077 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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