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European AI Forum (EAIF) newsletter provide you on a monthly basis with insights, news and updates from the European AI ecosystem. AI regulation and EU policy, national AI activities, upcoming events.
In this 2025 June newsletter you can find the following topics:
Statement by the European AI Forum on the: Consultation regarding the EU Cloud and AI Development Act
Call for submissions for 2nd European AI Awards
AI impacting our economy, society and policy? Generative AI Outlook 2024
Europe’s AI Gigafactories Spark Strong Interest Across 16 Member States
🚀 AI-on-Demand Platform goes live
Statement by the European AI Forum on the: Consultation regarding the EU Cloud and AI Development Act
The European AI Forum has published a detailed position paper in response to the European Commission’s consultation on the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act. This act comes at a critical moment as Europe faces mounting pressure to close the gap with global AI leaders. While the EU has made progress through initiatives like EuroHPC, the continent still lacks the compute capacity, regulatory flexibility, and investment incentives needed to drive AI innovation at scale. EAIF strongly supports the Commission’s ambition to build sovereign, innovation-friendly infrastructure—but stresses that this must be matched with actionable policies that unlock access to compute, data, and funding for European AI developers and startups.
The position paper outlines eight key policy recommendations, including the creation of a Compute-for-Equity Facility to turn idle public GPU hours into support for startups, harmonised tax and legal frameworks for data centre investment, and an EU-wide “Trusted Cloud & AI Passport” to streamline cross-border data use. EAIF also calls for modernising energy and procurement systems to support next-generation AI infrastructure, while reinforcing open-source development as a strategic asset. The message is clear: Europe’s competitiveness depends not just on regulating AI, but on building the technical and economic foundations to lead it.
Call for submissions for 2nd European AI Awards
🚀 The European AI Forum is thrilled to announce the call for applications for the 2025 European AI Awards! Following the success of the inaugural awards, this year’s edition will once again spotlight the brightest innovators, investors, policymakers, and ecosystem builders shaping Europe’s AI future. Applications are open from June 1st to September 31st, 2025, with winners to be revealed at the 12th EAIF Conference in December. If your work is transforming the AI landscape across business, policy, investment, or research, now is the time to apply and be recognised!
AI impacting our economy, society and policy?: Generative AI Outlook 2024
The Generative AI Outlook 2024 reveals a striking paradox: the EU excels in generative AI research but significantly lags in patents and investments. Europe produced over 3,000 research papers in 2023—accounting for 21% of global publications—yet holds just 2% of generative AI patents worldwide. This contrasts sharply with China’s 60% and the US’s 12% share of total generative AI activity, including patents, business operations, and funding. The EU also trails in startup investment, as European generative AI companies face notable challenges in attracting venture capital compared to their US counterparts, deepening the innovation-commercialisation gap.
Generative AI is already reshaping key economic sectors in Europe. In healthcare, it holds promise for personalised medicine, early disease detection, and streamlining fragmented patient data, with the EU leading nearly 10% of global generative AI activity in this domain. Education is seeing transformation through AI-powered personalised learning, while in manufacturing, agentic AI models are enabling autonomous production, smarter supply chains, and reduced waste. Yet, alongside opportunity comes disruption: generative AI is impacting high-skill professions like teachers and engineers, and shifting workforce demand toward transversal skills such as critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and AI literacy.
Socially, the report warns that generative AI could deepen existing inequalities. For example, JRC research found that AI models used in financial decisions were 4% more likely to favour men over women—echoing biases also seen in automated hiring tools. Vulnerable groups, especially children, face risks from biased outputs and misinformation. The report calls for proactive policy responses focused on transparency, fairness, and inclusive design. Europe’s path forward must combine ethical governance with structural investments—in compute, skills, and diversity—to truly harness generative AI as a force for innovation and equity.
Europe’s AI Gigafactories Spark Strong Interest Across 16 Member States
The European Commission’s call for expressions of interest in establishing AI Gigafactories has received an overwhelming 76 submissions across 60 sites in 16 Member States—far exceeding expectations and underscoring Europe's rising ambition in the global AI race. This strong response marks a significant milestone in the EU’s AI Continent Action Plan, highlighting broad interest from industry leaders, public and private investors, and tech partners in building large-scale, sovereign AI infrastructure. While the submissions are non-binding, they provide a strategic foundation ahead of the official call for proposals expected in late 2025, and signal a growing momentum to turn Europe into a global leader in AI compute, innovation, and industrial coordination.
🚀 AI-on-Demand Platform goes live
The European AI-on-Demand (AIoD) Platform has officially launched, a major step forward in building Europe’s digital backbone for AI.
Developed under the EU-funded DeployAI project, the platform was shaped with strong contributions from three EAIF members: KI Bundesverband, Hub France IA, and CroAI.
Together, they are helping design a platform tailored to the needs of Europe’s AI ecosystem: from startups to industry and research.
AIoD acts as a central access point for trustworthy, European-built AI infrastructure. It connects previously fragmented tools, data, and services, and supports the full AI lifecycle: from building and training to deployment, all in one place.
What’s in it for AI companies?
Pan-European visibility via the integrated AI marketplace
Low-code tools like AI Builder and AI Runner to develop, fine-tune, and deploy models faster
Business Navigator to discover European AI partners, start-ups, and services
HPC-as-a-Service and enterprise-ready Kubernetes for scalable AI model training and deployment
A trusted alternative to non-European providers, aligned with European values like openness, trust, and digital sovereignty
...and much more with new features and services continuously being added
Read the official press release: https://www.aiodp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/AIoD-PR_Launch_24_06_25.pdf
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