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For the public sector, AI helps to offer new and better services to citizens, and it supports evidence-based policymaking." The main objective of the Apply AI strategy is to introduce an "AI first" policy so that more companies think of AI when they need to tackle complex issues. "What we are now targeting in this strategy is to [combine] our AI developers together with our traditional industry." With trust in AI a key driver for investments, a service desk will be set up to provide companies with guidance to navigate the upcoming AI Act, with a compliance checker to help them understand their legal duties. Artificial intelligence for and in science As already announced, the AI in Science strategy will pave the way for the creation of the Resource for AI Science in Europe (Raise), which is intended to fulfil the Commission's commitment to create a "CERN for AI." "Through the strategy and Raise, we are occupying a space which is empty at the international level, because our main competitors, not to name the US and China, do not have a strategy," said a Commission official during a press briefing in advance of the strategy launch. "They do have a lot of money that they put on AI in science, but not in a way that is structured and reasoned." Raise will offer scientists and innovators access to strategic resources, data, tools, computing power and increased funding for research in and for AI, and is also set to boost the participation of the private sector."