Norwegian Centre on General-Purpose and Generative AI

This centre has the ambition to creating a strong, coherent and effective AI ecosystem in Norway that can establish novel paradigms and innovative foundations on AI for boosting the economy and competitiveness. AI is at the core of the technological race across the world for resilience and sovereignty due to current geopolitical crises and conflicts. Norway needs to reinforce its position in AI for improving its technological leadership while keeping up its societal welfare. The groundbreaking path of this centre is to tackle current AI models limitations in dealing with the physical world such as robots and machines with a new paradigm that enables AI-powered robots to operate trustfully and reliably. The innovation path is to exploit the current domain knowledge and market access of Norway to enable uptake and leadership and create business opportunities with new inventions in AI. Norway with the most vibrant technology landscape in AI will better be positioned to attract skilled professionals and retain local talent. Talent is only attracted and retained in cases where conditions are compelling. Resilience and technological sovereignty is being a renewed priority for Europe due to the current geopolitical and economic context that exposed vulnerabilities in critical value chains and essential resources. In this context, this centre has a crucial mission to also reinforce Norway’s position in digital technologies and AI to further support societal welfare and accelerate the digital and green transitions of industries and the economy.