10.04.2026, 12:00

The main change is a refinement of the financing section.
We have made our plan more concrete, with more precise numbers, a clearer structure of the fund, cooperation and integration with existing programs.

The petition now contains a concise version of the plan, while you can find the full details in our website.

We will keep on improving parts of the plan as our initiative grows.

Minor changes have also been added.


New petition description:

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We want AI to be built right, for all of humanity, and our countries are not doing enough to prepare for it. Our jobs, our social lives, and our security are already changing. We want to live in a world where AI makes our lives better — not worse.

For this reason, we support massive and rapid public investment in our countries, onto themobilize order of $100–300$300–600 billion, focused on AI infrastructure, research, startups, and strategic technologies and resources. Public money is our best bet because it gives us a say in how AI is developed.

AI is already changing our jobs, our social lives, and our security.

We are not leading this change — we are barely part of it. Europe's largest AI company, Mistral, has raised just $3B, compared to OpenAI's $168B.

Remaining passive is not an option. Others will develop AI and then sell it to us, making us poorer, more dependent, and exposedvoiceless toon greaterAI riskssafety — andwhich fewermay benefits.become as important as nuclear arms control.

Our long-term goal is collaboration — with the US, China, and others. But collaboration starts with strength. By investing now, we ensure we bring real value to the table, rather than letting our future be decided for us.

This petition is part of the AI Movement and applies to the following countries - starting with the EU:countries:

• The European Union, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland
• Canada, Australia and New Zealand
• Japan and South Korea
• Other like-minded partners

Our Plan

We wantpropose a Sovereign AI Investment Fund (SAIF) — a public-private fund inspired by successful sovereign wealth funds (Norway Pension Fund, Temasek and others). Participation is voluntary and open to createnon-EU government-backed sovereign investment funds, similar to Norway's Government Pension Fund and Alaska Permanent Fund (which invests oil revenues to fund pensions and public services).partners.

We envision a first publicpublic investment inon the order of 100-300B$ focused$100-200 billion, mobilizing $300-600 billion in total, focused on the following key areas:

• Datacenter Infrastructure: Both direct construction and indirect investment (funding companies and startups that build them).
• A CERN for AI: Create a research institution similar to CERN dedicated to AI.
• AI Startups and Companies: Funding promising startups, prioritizing domestic companies while also investing in leading firms like OpenAI and Anthropic to reduce risk and facilitate cooperation.
• Adjacent Technologies and Strategic Resources: Robotics, brain-computer interfaces, quantum computing, and securing strategic resources like rare earth elements and semiconductor manufacturing capacity.

A realistic path forwardNote to the reader: The following section shows how massive, rapid investments are also feasible in practice.If you are not interested in the technical details of the financing, you can safely skip it: the core idea of the petition does not dependnote on these elements.financing

EachThe participatinginvestment country could contribute:Up to 1% of its GDP per year, for 3 years, voluntarily.Thisscale is in line with other major historicalEU initiatives. Member states participate with a direct year 1 contribution of around 0.1-0.3% of GDP.The initial capital is leveraged, for EU countries, via the EIB, National Development Banks, NGEU reallocations and defence budgets. This public investmentscommitment anchors private and institutional co-investment. For non-EU countries, similar vehicles can be used, to increase the impact of their contribution.

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CERN for AI is financed separately, in a similar way to the bonds.→original ThisCERN, means theand Facilitybenefits can start investing rapidly, respecting the independence of each partner.Each participating country would create its own sovereign AI Fund — similar in spirit to Norway’s Government Pension Fund orfrom the Alaskashared Permanent Fund.These national AI Funds would receive their shareinfrastructure of the valuebroader createdinitiative.

We throughprovide more in-depth details on the financing on our website.

Shared investment, shared investmentvalue

Having initiative:AI companies headquartered in our countries means jobs and taxes paid here. Beyond that, returns from AI infrastructure, equity from supported startups, and other long-term gains.gains flow back to participating countries.

Every country would remain fully in control of its ownshare Fund.of returns. Some may choose to reinvest most of the returnsit into further AI development, while others could use part of the gains to support public serviceswelfare or provide citizen dividends.

In this way, countries benefit from acting together at scale, while citizens directly benefit from the long-term value generated by strategic AI investments.

Look at the AI Movement website for more details.

Join us in shaping a future where AI works for all of us.