Four French institutes have just been selected by [the jury mandated by] the French Government to become interdisciplinary institutes for artificial intelligence (3IA):
• ANITI (Toulouse), centred at l’Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
• MIAI @ Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble), centred at l’Université Grenoble Alpes
• PRAIRIE (Paris), centred à Inria
• 3IA Côte d’Azur (Nice), centred at l’Université Côte d’Azur
with Paris Dauphine, PSL Research University, a component of the third institute. (Where Prairie stands for PaRis Artificial Intelligence Research InstitutE.) This follows the “plan Villani“, launched by Cédric Villani to boost research in artificial intelligence in France and [possibly] slow down the brain drain of French IA researchers. With individual chairs attribued to each project, soon to be announced.