Investment in new European companies Artificial Intelligence (AI) This has been increasing since the European Commission expressed plans to strengthen its abilities as a “continent of AI”. But The current turmoil of world trade They can endanger these advances.
The European investment in artificial intelligence This has increased by 55% in the first quarter of this year, compared to the same period of the previous year, according to the new Deal Room data analyzed by the Baldartan capital exclusively with ‘Euronev’s Next’.
AI companies showed that data In the first quarter of 2024, they have already raised $ 3.4 billion (nearly 3,000 million euros) compared to $ 2.2 billion (1.9 billion euros). It also shows that European technology values have declined by 10%except AI.
However, the effects of the fees imposed by US President Donald Trump are not in data Scored China with a fee of 125% of imports. He attacked Europe with a 20% tariff rate on the export of rights to the US. Before the temporarily reduced to 10%.
At the weekend, electronic devices such as smartphones and computers will be exempted from US fees, Trump said. News released Europe’s technical activities Monday morning, the way to follow is still dark, especially when Trump said on Sunday, which said it would announce taxes on imported semiconductors this week, construction blocks for AI technology.
The foundation models of AI have become a geopolitical life, which is a matter of national security. According to the recent report of Stanford UniversityThe US and China are more presence than Europe in creating basement models .
However, Baldardon said it was investing in AI’s European companies It is often assigned to health institutions, AI’s instructions, internet security and robotics. The data also shows that the interest of AI’s European agents has increased, and the newly created new companies working on these equipment have paid $ 52 million (45 million euros), including loving companies in the Stockholm, and paid to the London -based AI.
Action plan in AI
Last week, EU Commissioner of Technology, Henna Virgunen It announced the action plan for the continent, which includes infrastructure, data, cloud, competitions and simplicity access, and wants to change European traditional industries.
He said that “creating skills in important fields” is important to ensure that the volume does not depend on other regions. “We have identified AI as one of the fields We need to create our own ability like quantum and chips. They are the main technologies for the future. “
There are two new AI Unicorn this year, and companies that estimated $ 1,000 million (1,000 million euros) without citing the stock market. It is Swedish Neco Health and Irish DineIt increases the total number of AI’s European Unicorn to 76.
How did it go to European countries?
Although outside the EU projects for the development of AI, The United Kingdom has raised most of the investment In this field of Europe, about $ 4.2 billion (3.6 billion euros) received by the newly developed British companies and this year’s expansion phase, which went to AI companies to $ 1.6 billion (1.4 billion euros).
In Germany, the investment of artificial intelligence increased by 74% in the first quarter of this year, which reached $ 404 million (355 million euros). However, FranceIts government has promoted investment in AI and has companies like Mistral AI, About 18% decreased In the first quarter of this year compared to last year.
However, Baldardon discovered that French investment declined by 26% in the first quarter and that investment in artificial intelligence is generally better than French technology. The French government has promoted the growth of AI in the country, organized the Summit this year About Paris. The day after the event, President Emmanuel Macron announced investments worth 109,000 million euros in the coming years.
“This is equivalent to France to America He declared with the Starcate, “Macron said,” Macron refers to the US project aimed at investing $ 500,000 million (438,000 million euros) in the construction of the new AI infrastructure over the next four years.
“European ambition in artificial intelligence It is increasing. The action on Paris has put Ribbon so much on what you want to do in Europe, and it is wonderful to see European startups and ‘criteria’ challenging, ”said Baldardon Capital’s partner James Vice in a statement.
Advertisement“From Health to Health to Internet Security and Automation, European companies are making solutions They are very needed and proves that investors are excited about the technical capacity of the continent. “
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