The Government aspires for Artificial Intelligence to run in Spanish, which is why this Tuesday the Council of Ministers approved the Strategic Project for Recovery (PERTE) 'New Economy of the Language', endowed with 1,100 million euros that are distributed in 14 tractor projects around five strategic axes: the creation of a knowledge base in Spanish and co-official languages, Artificial Intelligence, science, learning Spanish around the world and cultural industries.

The Council of Ministers has approved this project advanced by Vice President Nadia Calviño previously at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

In the Executive they use the calculation that around 15% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a country depends on the language, so that

180,000 million euros

would materialize annually thanks to Spanish.

Language is "one of the fundamental factors for technological and business development, a key element of competition, as well as being a determining factor for inclusion and well-being", as stated by the Economic Vice President Nadia Calviño at the subsequent press conference to the Council of Ministers, already this Tuesday in Madrid: "We have to take advantage of the economic, cultural and also social value of our main intangible asset. Get an Artificial Intelligence that thinks in Spanish, in short, that understands us, so that our citizens and companies have equal access to products and services that will be decisive for their lives and their economic activity".

Although the project aims to promote Spanish compared to other languages, at least

30 million of the budget will be used exclusively to support projects in co-official languages

, such as Catalan, Basque and Galician.

Among the project's initiatives is the creation of a unique technological platform for learning and certifying knowledge of Spanish as a foreign language, as Calviño detailed in the press conference after the Council of Ministers.

This learning axis, which includes the digitization of the Cervantes Institute, will gather 475 million euros.

Other institutions such as the National Library of Spain, the General Secretariat of Ibero-American States and the Organization of Ibero-American States, among others, would be involved in this new PERTE.

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