The European Commission unveils the Artificial Intelligence Continent Action Plan, which aims to encourage the development and deployment of innovative technologies across the bloc.

On Wednesday, the Commission will release the AI Continent Action initiative. This initiative aims to encourage European enterprises to create and employ AI tools. Vice-President Henna Virkkunen will unveil the strategy, which will be built on five pillars: infrastructure, data access, cloud, talent, skills, and simplicity.

The EU enacted the AI Act, the world’s first law on artificial intelligence, which regulates these tools based on their potential risks to society. These laws will not be completely implemented until 2027, but the Commission is working to simplify the current requirements in order to avoid future issues.

Earlier this year, Brussels declared that it will raise €200 billion for AI investment. Of this, €20 billion will go to gigafactories, which the Commission claims are required to enable the “collaborative development” of the most complicated AI models.

The EU’s efforts to impose its restrictions on Big Tech are being undercut by harsh criticism from the incoming US government led by Donald Trump. At the AI Action Summit in Paris in February, Vice President JD Vance warned against “overregulation” of AI. In Munich, he again criticised the absence of freedom of expression on the continent.