The French Ministry of the Armed Forces will launch a Ministerial Agency for Defence AI (AMIAD), minister Sébastien Lecornu announced as he presented the new strategy on artificial intelligence.

The agency is set to recruit 300 people, including numerous researchers, split between its research site at the École Polytechnique engineering school in Palaiseau outside of Paris, and a production site in Bruz, near Rennes.

Sébastien Lecornu lance la stratégie ministérielle sur l’intelligence artificielle | Ministère des Armées (defense.gouv.fr)