The Plan

Motivation

US and China are leading the AI race.

AI can change everything: the economy, jobs, society, geopolitics. Look at how the world was 30 years ago before the internet and mobile phones, and look at how it is now. Think about the world 30 years from now and how AI and other technologies could have changed it.

A big public investment will create jobs and economic growth. It is a win-win for everyone.

Failing to invest would make us dependent on foreign countries, making us poorer and more vulnerable within a few years.

We would also lose our opportunity to influence AI development in a positive direction for humanity. We could only trust that others move in the right direction.

In short

We want to create 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).

The funds could be tied to a shared investment facility that we describe below.

We would focus on four key investment areas:

• Datacenter Infrastructure: Both direct construction (e.g., research institute datacenters) and indirect investment (funding companies and startups that build them).

• A CERN for AI: Create a research institution similar to CERN dedicated to AI, creating hubs of excellence for AI research and development.

• 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: Investing in robotics, brain-computer interfaces, quantum computing, and securing strategic resources like rare earth elements and semiconductor manufacturing capacity.

Investment Scale: We estimate investments in the hundreds of billions of dollars are needed. This may sound like a lot, but it's entirely feasible. Consider that 800 billion euros are foreseen for EU military spending. NextGenerationEU amounted to ~750 billion euros.

Purpose and Returns: We aim to foster domestic technology development and guarantee dividends to the population. This last point is crucial: citizens should directly benefit from these investments through returns, creating broad public support and ensuring AI benefits everyone, not just a few tech giants. Realistically, funds of this type won't be able to guarantee significant returns for the first few years, but within 10 years we expect they could have a major impact on the population, either as direct dividends or through funding for public facilities, hospitals, schools, etc.

More details - A Realistic Path Forward

It's still early to define every detail, but we want to show that a massive public investment in AI is not only possible—it's practical.

Here is one realistic path forward:

A Voluntary, Multi-National AI Investment Facility

Instead of waiting for all EU and non-EU countries to agree (which often takes years), a group of willing nations could launch a shared AI Investment Facility.

This is not just for the EU. It is designed for a coalition of countries:

• EU countries (acting as the anchor)

• Switzerland, Norway, the UK

• Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, and other strategic partners

No one is forced to join.

A small group can start, and others can join later.

This keeps the spirit of the AI Movement: open, collaborative, fast.

Why Everyone Benefits

This Facility offers unique advantages to every partner:

• EU: Geopolitical influence in the AI era, access to cheap energy, a larger talent pool, increased capital and resources

• Switzerland/UK: Join a global tier-1 project without sacrificing political neutrality or independence. It secures their place at the table for the next industrial revolution.

• Canada/Nordics/Australia/New Zealand: Countries with abundant green energy and space become the physical backbone of the AI infrastructure (datacenters), attracting massive direct investment.

• Japan/South Korea: Global leaders in robotics, semiconductors, and advanced manufacturing, accelerating the integration of AI into physical systems and next-generation industrial technologies

How Countries Could Finance It

Each participating country could contribute:

Up to 1% of its GDP per year, for 3 years, voluntarily.

This is in line with major historical public investments in transformative technologies, and investments in other sectors, including military.

There is a practical trick that makes financing fast and respects national sovereignty:

• 1) Guarantees first: Governments issue state guarantees rather than immediate cash. These do not count as immediate deficit spending, but they give the Facility the credit rating needed to raise massive funds.

• 2) Raising Capital via EIB & Parallel Vehicles: For EU Members: The European Investment Bank (EIB) issues bonds backed by these guarantees. For Partners (CH, UK, CA, NO): They can contribute via parallel investment vehicles or co-investment funds. This ensures they retain control and governance over their contribution, without needing to join EU treaties.

• 3) Cash later: Actual budget contributions arrive gradually over time to repay the bonds.

→ This means the Facility can start investing rapidly, respecting the independence of each partner.

How the Money Gets Invested

To move at the speed of AI, we cannot create slow bureaucracy.

Instead, the Facility would give a Special High-Risk Innovation Mandate to trusted institutions (EIB, UK Infrastructure Bank, Swiss Innovation Agency, etc.) to coordinate and invest in:

• Frontier-level compute (large AI datacenters powered by clean energy)

• A "CERN for AI" distributed research network

• Strategic startups

• Robotics and advanced hardware

This is exactly the kind of massive scale we need if we want our coalition to stay relevant in the AI era.

What about the AI Funds?

Each participating country would create its own sovereign AI Fund — similar in spirit to Norway’s Government Pension Fund or the Alaska Permanent Fund.

These national AI Funds would receive their share of the value created through the shared investment initiative: returns from AI infrastructure, equity from supported startups, and other long-term gains.

Every country would remain fully in control of its own Fund. Some may choose to reinvest most of the returns into further AI development, while others could use part of the gains to support public services 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.

What about private investment?

Private companies and investors would be able to join the facility as well. This would significantly increase the capital and the chances of success. Every euro of public support will easily attract multiple euros of private investment.

By keeping a significant public stake, we ensure that the AI developed benefits everyone, not just private shareholders.

Why This Approach Works

• Voluntary: 5–10 countries can start and already mobilise huge resources.

• Flexible: EU and Non-EU partners work together via co-investment, not rigid treaties.

• Fast: With guarantees, the funding mechanism can be set up within months, not years.

• Realistic: No unanimity required. No heavy new institutions.

• Transformative: Even a limited coalition could mobilise €100–300 billion in the first phase.

A First Draft — and an Open Invitation

This is not a final blueprint.

It's a starting point to show that big and rapid AI investment is mechanically possible.

Many details will evolve with expert input, political realities, and public debate.

But the core message is simple:

If countries want to invest massively in AI, there is a clear, financiable, and realistic path to do it together.

This is what the AI Movement is fighting for.