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Born in Groningen, with a doctorate in AI and twelve years as CEO of EIT Digital, Willem Jonker now chairs the Dutch Coalition for Artificial Intelligence. At 60, this discreet architect of the European digital ecosystem has just completed his most ambitious project: the Groningen AI Factory, endowed with \u20ac200 million to embody\u2026 <\/p>\n

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N\u00e9 \u00e0 Groningue, docteur en IA, ancien PDG d’EIT Digital pendant douze ans, Willem Jonker pr\u00e9side aujourd’hui la Coalition n\u00e9erlandaise pour l’intelligence artificielle. \u00c0 60 ans, cet architecte discret de l’\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me num\u00e9rique europ\u00e9en vient de mener \u00e0 bien son projet le plus ambitieux : l’AI Factory de Groningue, dot\u00e9e de 200 millions d’euros pour incarner... <\/p>\n

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