Gov't to sponsor investment in AI, bio-convergence

• Published date: 26 January 2023

Government ministries have been working on this program for a long time, and the minister of finance in the new government, Bezalel Smotrich, has decided to adopt it and include it in the next budget. The investment in bio-convergence was recommended by a committee set up to examine the matter last year, while investment in AI has been on the agenda for longer. The program is a joint one between the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science and Technology, Innovation, the Israel Innovation Authority, and the Ministry of Defense Directorate of Defense Research and Development (Mafat)

Israel seeks to be a among the global leaders in artificial intelligence and bio-convergence, hence the...