By Ahmed Eljechtimi
RABAT, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Morocco is concentrating on a 100 billion dirhams ($10 billion) enhance to its gross home product from synthetic intelligence by 2030, the minister in cost of digital transition mentioned on Monday, because the nation steps up its funding in coaching programmes, sovereign knowledge centres and cloud companies.
Morocco, whose present GDP involves round $170 billion, plans to put money into synthetic intelligence centres linked to universities and the personal sector, and to combine AI options into public administration and trade, Minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni informed a convention in Rabat.
The GDP enhance would largely come from increasing home knowledge‑processing capability by way of sovereign knowledge centres, scaling up cloud and fibre‑optic infrastructure, and constructing an AI‑expert workforce to help the deployment of AI options throughout trade and authorities, she mentioned.
Below the plan, Morocco expects to create 50,000 AI-related jobs and prepare 200,000 graduates in AI expertise by 2030.
As a part of that effort, Seghrouchni on Monday signed a partnership settlement with France’s Mistral AI to help the event of generative AI instruments in Morocco.
“We would like to show Morocco right into a future excellence hub in AI and knowledge science,” Seghrouchni mentioned.
The federal government can be making ready laws governing synthetic intelligence, based on the minister.
Morocco has earmarked 11 billion dirhams ($1.2 billion) for its digital transformation technique for 2024–2026, protecting AI initiatives and the enlargement of fibre‑optic infrastructure.
It’s individually planning a 500‑megawatt, renewable energy-powered knowledge centre within the southern metropolis of Dakhla to spice up the safety and sovereignty of nationwide knowledge storage.
(Reporting by Ahmed El Jechtimi; Enhancing by Hugh Lawson)
