PARIS, Feb. 12,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As
France recently hosted the Global
AI Action Summit, Artprice by Artmarket – world leader in art
market data for 28 years – has unveiled its 2025-2029 strategic
roadmap and the first concrete successes of its Intuitive
Artmarket® AI, consolidating its position as the global leader in
AI-driven art market intelligence. Artprice by Artmarket.com est
cotée sur le marché réglementé Euronext Paris.
On February 10 and 11, 2025,
France received nearly 100
countries as part of the Global Summit for Action on
Artificial Intelligence - "AI Action Summit" - using its fabulous
Grand Palais to host heads of state and government, leaders of
international organizations, small and large businesses, academics,
researchers, non-governmental organizations, artists and various
other representatives of civil society.
The summit was part of a broader AI Action Week starting
February 6, featuring key events such
as Scientific conferences on February 6–7 at École Polytechnique
and a cultural weekend on February 8–9 organized by the French
Ministry of Culture under Minister Rachida
Dati, which included Artprice and its founder-CEO, thierry
Ehrmann.
According to Rachida Dati,
Minister of Culture: "The
Cultural Weekend program, designed by the Ministry of Culture, aims
to highlight, to as wide an audience as possible, the opportunities
that artificial intelligence offers to creators. However, while we
hope to make a veritable contribution to a new era of creativity,
we need to keep a sharp focus on the challenges and risks that the
cultural sectors face today."
Echoing this, Artprice, in its capacity as the World
Leader in Art Market Information, previewed exclusive figures from
its upcoming 30th Annual Art Market Report, produced in partnership
with China's Artron Research
Academy of Arts.
This landmark report – eagerly anticipated by the global
art world in March of each year – is distributed in 122 countries
and 11 languages through Artprice's 26-year partnership with Cision
PR Newswire. This year's edition highlights France as Europe's leading art market by auction
turnover, the world's second market in terms of art auction
transaction volumes, and the world's fourth largest by total
auction turnover (after the United
States, China and the
UK).
The AI summit provided France with a platform to showcase its AI
expertise and the vibrancy of its business and research ecosystems,
and to launch a new phase of its national AI strategy.
To this end, Clara Chappaz,
Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence and Digital
Technology and the official host for this summit in
the government of François Bayrou, identified three objectives:
societal & cultural, economic and diplomatic.
In an interview in Les Échos on the eve of the
summit, Clara Chappaz
addressed a number of key issues: "At the White
House in Washington on
21 January 2025, the
United States –
through the voice of President Donald
Trump accompanied by Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle,
Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, and
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI –
announced Stargate, a $500
billion AI plan, while China now has DeepSeek, a very efficient
and low-cost model.
Where does Europe stand in this field? AI is an
opportunity for Europe. The Draghi
report, released last September, was incisive. It showed that
Europe has reacted. I am not
waiting for a European surge, it has happened. The European
Commission's recent Competitiveness Compass clearly prioritizes
innovation. We're in the race, we but must stay
there.
Is there a surge in large groups, which are key in the
adoption and diffusion of AI? During the summit, which will take
place at the Grand Palais, the world's largest
companies and the world's largest AI start-ups will come together.
This has never happened before. This shows that everyone is around
the same table and that silos are being broken
down."
Anne Bouverot, an AI
expert, engineer, and special envoy of French President
Emmanuel Macron, played a central
role in preparing the AI Action Summit. She oversaw work on five
main themes: AI for public interest, the future of work, innovation
ecosystems, AI safety, and global AI governance. She also
coordinates international efforts to establish open, democratic AI
governance and founded the Abeona Foundation to promote responsible
AI. She co-chairs the Paris-based
AI & Society Institute.
Indeed, on February
9, during his special speech on France 2, President Emmanuel Macron declared that he wanted to
make France a powerhouse
of artificial intelligence, announcing 109 billion euros of investments in Artificial
Intelligence in France by
groups like MGX, BlackRock, Brookfield, Amazon, Microsoft, Fluidstack,
Data4, Equinix, Digital Realty, Prologis, Evroc, Sesterce, Opcore,
Mistral, BPI France, Infravia and Scaleway.
At the end of the Summit for Action on AI in Paris, co-chaired with India in the presence of its Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, it was clear that
President Macron wants to see France become "number 3 in the world", behind
the United States and China. The summit brought together nearly 100
countries, leaders of international organizations, researchers and
representatives of civil society to define the foundations of
global AI governance.
Among them were: United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres; U.S. Vice President J.D.
Vance, who made a career in Silicon Valley; Chinese Vice
Premier Ding Xuexiang; European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen; the German Chancellor,
Olaf Scholz as well as the President
of the United Arab Emirates,
Mohamed Bin Zayed
Al-Nahyan.
This summit was also attended by
representatives of international organizations such as Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the WTO; Mathias Corman, Secretary General of the OECD;
Fatih Birol, Director of the
International Energy Agency; Moussa
Faki, Chairperson of the African Union Commission; as well
as numerous tech company executives such as Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Google CEO
Sundar Pichai; Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI; Xavier Niel, Founder of the Iliad group; Demis
Hassabis, Director of Google DeepMind; Brad
Smith, President of Microsoft.
There were also many scientists and experts like
Yann Le Cun, AI pioneer and
Scientific Director at Meta; Joëlle Barral, Researcher at Google
DeepMind; Michael Jordan, Professor
at the University of Berkeley, and, Nobel Prize
winners like Geoffrey Hinton,
considered one of the "fathers" of modern AI; journalist and Nobel
Peace Laureate, Maria Ressa, and
economist, Joseph
Stiglitz.
A steering committee bringing together representatives
from around thirty countries and international institutions as well
as representatives from academia, businesses and civil society met
five times to prepare the discussions for this Summit.
France plans to train
40,000 to 100,000 researchers by 2030 and build 35 data centers
(including a €30–50 billion UAE-funded facility). It also plans to
establish a Franco-European regulatory framework for AI.
Brookfield announced a
€20 billion investment in French data centers, including a
1-gigawatt facility in Cambrai. This investment mainly targets the
development of data centers, essential for training AI, as well as
associated infrastructure, such as energy production. Among the
major projects, a mega-data center will be built in Cambrai, in the
north of France, with a maximum
power of 1 gigawatt.
According to an official French government source,
France is Europe's top destination for foreign AI
investments.
At the end of the summit, the creation of an observatory
of the energy impact of artificial intelligence, led by the
International Energy Agency (IEA), was formalized as well as a
coalition for sustainable AI, which intends to bring together the
main companies in the sector.
News and outlook for
2025:
Artprice by Artmarket reached a new milestone on
January 9, 2025, with the success of
its Intuitive Artmarket® AI and
is now the world leader in AI for Art Market
information
At the end of 2024, Artprice by Artmarket gave its
high-end subscribers access to data learned by its Intuitive
Artmarket® AI and its algorithms.
On January 9, 2025, Artprice
by Artmarket consolidated its position as the global leader in
AI-driven art market intelligence with the successful roll-out of
its Intuitive Artmarket® AI. Today, with one month of hindsight, we
already see that these subscriptions have become the preferred
annual subscriptions in our high-end offer.
This spectacular development demonstrates that the 9.3
million customers and members of Artprice by Artmarket have
accepted the advent of AI culture into the heart of our
databases and are moving towards premium subscriptions that include
Intuitive Artmarket® AI, with a corresponding impact on the growth
of our recurring revenue (ARR). Over the coming years, Artprice
will increase its research and results to a level never before
reached in the art market for its clients and members, offering a
whole range of new services and products.
Artprice was particularly interested in a
DOMO Inc. study, (figures from which were published by Les
Échos/Solutions ). DOMO uses an important index that scores the
ability of a company to integrate AI into its processes. This index
measures the processing of data/second per employee.
The average is a generation of 1.7 MB of
data/second.
Following an IT audit by Mazars, Artprice by Artmarket was
able to see for itself that each of its employees generates
35MB/second, i.e. 21 times more than the European average, which is
perfectly consistent with Artprice's Core Business as a major
global publisher of professional databases and proprietary
algorithms and world leader in information on the Art
Market.
Artprice monitors the attitudes and policies of the
Big Five Audit & Consulting firms towards AI. Clearly AI
is 'the major subject'. For example, Accenture and NVIDIA
announcing an alliance under the name Accenture NVIDIA Business
Group, to bring companies into the AI era.
Arnaud Naudan, President of BDO France
reacted on Ecorama: "One of the two major
challenges for our clients is artificial intelligence".
Deloitte, the leading Big 5 Auditor, created AI Institute "to
bring together the brightest minds in the field of AI". For
KPMG: "Three quarters of French CEOs consider that their management
team is aware of the benefits of Generative Artificial Intelligence
to strengthen the competitiveness of their companies (CEO Outlook
Study).
This cultural revolution is introducing a
whole new vocabulary to the commercial world. But the processes and
tools that make up AI are already scientifically at the very core
of Artprice by Artmarket. Via this new vocabulary, Artprice's
clients and partners are discovering the unexplored riches of
Artprice and the extraordinary depth of data that corresponds
exactly to their needs.
In addition, Artprice by Artmarket has twice consecutively
obtained the state label "Innovative Company" (a rare occurrence
for companies listed on a regulated market), awarded by the
Banque Publique d'Investissement (BPI) and it is pursuing
its ambitions in this direction.
Artprice by Artmarket.com, drawing on the experience of
its parent company Groupe Serveur – a pioneer of the
Internet in Europe, legal
databases, and the first computer-generated images since 1987 – has
developed over these decades thousands of increasingly powerful and
relevant proprietary algorithms with more than 180 data banks which
allow it to set up its own Intuitive Artmarket® AI, in strict
compliance with various countries' legislations, particularly those
regarding PDP and IP.
This was only possible through the targeted
acquisition in 1999 by Groupe Server, then by
Artprice, of innovative companies such as Xylogic, a Swiss company
composed exclusively of top scientists (from CERN, WHO, etc.) who
were considerably ahead of their time and who already pre-figured
the solid beginnings and fundamentals of artificial intelligence
(see Artmarket.com's AMF reference document).
In the cozy world of large global publishers of
professional databases that Artprice belongs to, it is
vital for the long-term development of industries to integrate
proprietary AI into core businesses. This is why Artprice by
Armarket has taken a very significant lead since 1999 and made
2025/2029 the key period for the commercial launch of its a
proprietary algorithmic AI, Intuitive
Artmarket®.
According to thierry Ehrmann, Founder of
Artprice and CEO of Artmarket.com (official certified Who's Who In
France biography:
https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2024/02/2024_Biographie_thierry_Ehrmann_WhosWhoInFrance.pdf
)
"By exploiting its hundreds of millions of anonymized
proprietary logs, texts and tens of millions of artworks in its
databases, Artprice by Artmarket algorithms are capable of
identifying all the language used to describe the initial approach
of an artist, his universe, his inspirations, the mediums used, his
themes, his forms and volumes, etc."
This precious data allows users to get closer
to the 861,000 referenced artists with their biographies and
certified data, beyond the classic academic visual criteria, thanks
to the neural networks of the Intuitive Artmarket® AI.
Our Intuitive Artmarket ® AI can already calculate
reliable price information and explore the traceability of an
artwork, examining its auction results over time, using the
repeated sales method that is specific to Artprice; but it is also
capable of anticipating future value fluctuations of unique
works.
It can also detect transversal artistic trends of extreme
complexity which largely escape the academic, institutional,
university and commercial worlds.
In this respect, an in-depth 'spontaneous awareness' study
was prepared to measure the precise footprint Artprice has in the
world of Art and Art History.
The study was conducted during the CIHA Lyon 2024,
France - 36th world congress
devoted to research in Art History with more than 70 countries and
1000 speakers, where Artprice was a committed patron of these Art
History Olympiads which have been held every 4 years in a major
city of the world since 1873.
In the study, Artprice ranks as the 'top-of-mind' database
on the Art Market.
After several months of preparation, Artprice by Artmarket
was able to be present during the entire congress, participating in
conferences, ensuring a presence at the CIHA book fair and hosting
a special evening event at its world headquarters located in the
heart of its Organe Museum of Contemporary Art, the entity which
manages the "Abode of Chaos" (dixit the New
York Times).
In addition to 'spontaneous awareness', Artprice also
tried to determine the level of 'qualified awareness'.
This very qualitative study benefited from two exceptional
factors: on the one hand, by physically questioning conference
attendees from 70 countries, it avoided online or telephone
questionnaires, the relevance of which is sometimes unreliable and
cannot be truly verified. On the other hand, Artprice was able to
interact directly with the registered and certified congress and
conference attendees, taking note of their professions,
specialties, positions, titles, diplomas, and institutions or
universities.
We asked the following question: "Which databases on the
Art Market do you know?"
Out of 378 delegates questioned, 325 cited Artprice first,
i.e. 86%, clearly placing Artprice as the 'top-of-mind' art market
database.
'Top-of-mind' awareness is the percentage of people whose
first response identifies a particular brand, product, or service.
It is both a spontaneous response and the first of their
responses.
To return to the Intuitive Artmarket ® AI algorithms, they
can help art galleries and auction houses set optimal prices for
artworks based on various factors such as demand, rarity,
and of course the notoriety of the artist concerned. In
short, Intuitive Artmarket ® artificial intelligence offers
significant potential to revolutionize the art market by improving
access to information, personalizing the buyer experience, fighting
counterfeiting and opening new creative perspectives.
The Intuitive Artmarket® AI works exclusively
on an almost infinite scope of proprietary content, and is
therefore protected under IP law, which gives users freedom from
potential copyright obstacles and prohibitions. Intuitive
Artmarket® AI therefore has no need to look elsewhere for data
and/or responses to very specific requests from art market
users.
This not only guarantees its sustainability, but also
guarantees a considerable increase in Artprice by Artmarket.com
revenue over time, via a growing volume of added-value
subscriptions.
thierry Ehrmann, CEO of Artprice by
Artmarket :
"Over the last two decades Artprice
has been recording, observing and inducing hundreds of millions of
anonymized human behaviors relating to the art market which, by
nature, is infinitely complex because artworks are all different,
all singular, and abstract notions of beauty depend on human
emotion.".
This reinforced algorithmic learning has allowed
Artprice to create an unique AI model specific
to the art market that will constitute the 2025/2029 growth driver
for Artprice by Artmarket.
No less than 95% of companies in the S&P 500 plan to
build their growth on Artificial Intelligence.
According to the top Anglo-Saxon financial analysts – who
are one step ahead of Europe on
this subject – the only economically viable model that does not
expose the company (whatever its size) to constant legal attacks is
an AI based on an extremely well-defined economic
segment.
The economic segment of AI is based on five
pillars that all relate to the history of IT: Big Data, Deep
learning, Data Mining, Proprietary Algorithms, and, of course, a
Core Business based on the sale of ultra-qualified information,
with standardization of data for all processes.
The information produced by Artprice by
Artmarket plays a vital role and the company has full intellectual
property rights over all of these five pillars, with copyright and
related rights confirmed over all algorithms, databases, Big Data,
machine learning (deep learning) and neural networks.
In sum, the AIs that will triumph
with a very significant economic gain, without industrial or legal
risk, are those created by
economic entities that own, in full intellectual
property, all the different stages of the proprietary AI in
a defined market segment where high added value information,
with a high cost, is vital. And this is exactly the case of the
Intuitive Artmarket ® AI developed by Artprice by
Artmarket.com, World Leader in Art Market
information.
Progress of AI Intuitive
Artmarket® 2025-2029 master plan: after Blind Spot
AI®, Artprice launches its 3rd AI,
AIDB* Search Artist®, (Artificial
Intelligence Data Bases).
In the 2025-2029 master plan, Artprice by Artmarket has
planned the creation of approximately 20 specific AIs which each
represent the sum of the knowledge of each Artprice department.
These are Econometrics & Statistics for Art Market Indices,
Artist Biographies, Documentary Collections of Manuscripts &
Catalogs, Databases, Editorial, Intranet Auctioneers,
ArtMarketInsight press agency, Annual Art Market Reports, IT, SGE
(Search Generative Experience), Data Analyst & Scientist,
R&D, Marketing, Customer Service, Multi-users & Major
accounts, Standardized Marketplace, Artist & Creative Entities
Communications department , Institutional & Financial
Communication, Legal, Financial and Management… in other words, an
AI potentially specific to each department.
One of Artprice's key approaches to AI was to
avoid fuzzy set theory, also known as 'fuzzy logic', which is a
method based on 'degrees of truth' rather than the usual Boolean
logic system based on 0 or 1. This amounts to searching, in Boolean
logic, for unknown but nonetheless indisputable underlying
elements.
Artprice has developed, among other things, a unique
approach to its Intuitive Artmarket® AI which it calls Blind
Spot AI®. This revolutionary AI concept, created
by Artprice, searches the blind spots between
structured data.
In Art History, our Blind Spot AI® would be
the equivalent to Marcel Duchamp's
infrathin concept, which is an aesthetic and scientific
notion designating an imperceptible difference or interval,
sometimes only imaginable but very real, between two identified
phenomena.
This Duchampian theory came from work with
the famous mathematician Henri Poincaré, author of Science and
Hypothesis, a work on the importance of using models in
science. It is plausible that this work inspired Einstein for his
thinking which led to the founding article of the theory of special
relativity, published in 1905.
Indeed, among the major global publishers of databases, we
are fully conscious that there is no room for mistakes
as the relationship of trust established with users cannot tolerate
approximate or erroneous data.
Artprice is demonstrating that it is possible to produce
unexplored data with its proprietary AI and its Blind Spot AI
® process, without undermining the trust that has, for 27
years, been based on indisputable, reliable,
exhaustive and long-lasting data, essential to Artprice's clients,
namely Experts, Auctioneers / Auction Houses, Art Dealers,
Gallerists, Institutions, Museums, Insurance Companies, Private
Bankers, Banks, Asset Managers and Collectors.
Considering the sometimes very high financial values of
artworks, we are perfectly aware that our loyal and recurring
Artprice clientele will not tolerate the slightest
error.
In its beta test at the end of 2024, Artprice by Artmarket
provided proof that having stabilized the question of
alignment (the 'alignment' problem) in a decade – which is
essential for the successful completion of the genesis and then the
construction of its Intuitive Artmarket® AI – the high added value
data produced by its Intuitive Artmarket® AI respects the ethics,
values, expectations and human sensitivities that are specific to
the Artprice by Artmarket group, its clients and to the intangible
and centuries-old rules of the art market.
During 2025, Artprice, with its AIDB Search
Artist® will allow its 9.3 million customers and members to
search for an artwork via a paid service, based on a photograph
of the work, (similar
to Google Lens), to find the same or similar works on
Artprice, with the artist's data.
Our proprietary Artprice AI application, AIDB Search
Artist®, is the result of seven years of development, taking into
account the 210 million images or engravings of works of art (with
a hard core of 18 million tokenized images) from 1700 to the
present day from the largest collection in the world of physical
manuscripts and art market sales catalogs, a veritable 'Library of
Alexandria', that belongs to
Artprice by Artmarket and has been annotated and analyzed by our
historians and experts.
Artprice's AIDB Search Artist® AI
application could only be designed by having full control over all
the processes and copyrights, with manual learning, in the early
years, by Artprice specialists to train a deep-learning
application, allowing research on an artwork, which no other
specialized company has succeeded in achieving to date.
In fact, the thirty companies that were confronted with
this exercise limited it to their non-exhaustive content where
the references rarely exceeded 20,000 artists, whereas
Artprice lists 861,000. Furthermore, in many cases, the
reproduction rights of the artists were not honored.
In the context of Intellectual Property,
artists' rights are frequently absent from AI and are often victims
of copyright violations. That is why Artprice pays for the
reproduction rights of the artists it references through 54
copyright societies in different countries.
A fourth AI tool will be based on the recognition and
expertise of the signatures and monograms of artists from the 4th
century to the present day: AIDB signatures & monograms® by
Artprice.
It has been trained using the three largest global
databases of signatures and monograms, acquired by Artprice over
the past 28 years: Caplan & Creps (USA), Sound View Press (USA), Editions Van Wilder (Europe), Enrique
Mayer (Switzerland) [see
Artmarket.com reference document].
Progress of the 2025 Intuitive
Artmarket® AI master plan, concerning investments in NVIDIA's
Project DIGITS
Artprice by Artmarket has fully approved the technological
concept and resulting legal solution of NVIDIA's
Project DIGITS.
Indeed, this compact and energy-efficient box
format represents a genuine revolution. It will allow Artprice to
equip all of its employees with Project DIGITS boxes within the
framework of production, knowledge and expertise. Everything will
be connected exclusively to the Artprice by Artmarket's Intranet
via a DMZ network.
With Project DIGITS, users can develop and run inference
on models using their own desktop system, then seamlessly deploy
the models to exclusive Artprice-owned cloud or data center
infrastructure.
According to Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of
NVIDIA,"AI will be mainstream in every application for every
industry. With Project DIGITS, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes
to millions of developers. Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks
of every data scientist, AI researcher and student empowers them to
engage and shape the age of AI."
Likewise, all the data generated by Artprice's numerous
proprietary AIs will only be generated from these 180 proprietary
data banks, which significantly limits the phenomenon of
'hallucination' specific to AI. Lastly, the control of
methodological biases is much better managed, because all of the
calculation and reflection chains will rely entirely on the
Artprice databases and its global Intranet which has been
connecting to its 7,200 partner Auction Houses for 28
years.
According to Artprice's analysis, NVIDIA's
Project DIGITS is based on a singular innovation: the GB10
Grace Blackwell chip. The box
using this chip provides a computing power reaching 1 petaflop, or
the equivalent of 1000 operations per second in FP4 precision.
Finally, its real strength remains in its ability to run AI models
with up to 200 billion parameters - a performance that rises to 405
billion when two units are connected together.
The device comes with Linux-based NVIDIA DGX
OS.
Artprice by Artmarket, since its inception, has developed
all of its infrastructures and databases under Linux and
therefore has perfect mastery of the Linux Kernel to
integrate a Project DIGITS for each Artprice employee, whatever
their function.
According to Artprice, this strategy can only be a winner.
By individually offering this type of equipment with colossal power
at a competitive price, NVIDIA meets Artprice's
specifications and thus confirms its position as the leader in
accelerated computing.
Artprice is reinforced by its
analysis of Deepseek-R1
Artprice by Artmarket monitors and analyzes all the main
LLMs (Large Language Models), particularly those in Open
Source.
Since its irruption in January
2025, Artprice has naturally analyzed Deepseek R1 in Open
Source - an open weighted model of 671 billion parameters which
performs comparably to OpenAI, but at a 90 to 95% lower cost by
distilling 6 Llama and Qwen models.
Now continuing its work in this direction, DeepSeek has
released DeepSeek-R1, which uses a combination of RL and supervised
fine-tuning to handle complex reasoning tasks and match the
performance of Open AI o1.
In testing, DeepSeek-R1 scored 79.8% on the AIME 2024 math
tests and 97.3% on the MATH-500. It also scored 2,029 on
Codeforces, better than 96.3% of human programmers. On the other
hand, Open AI's o1-1217 obtained 79.2%, 96.4% and
96.6% respectively on these tests. It also demonstrated strong
general knowledge, with an accuracy of 90.8% on the MMLU, just
behind o1's 91.8%.
For Artprice by Artmarket, the heated and controversial
debates surrounding Deepseek simply confirm the
importance of Artprice's work and analysis on the real measured
needs for its Intuitive Artmarket® AI.
The decisive parameter that validated
Deepseek's impact was the 'Black Monday' on Wall Street on
January 27, 2025, which saw over a
$1 trillion withdrawn from American
tech stocks. The Western world was largely surprised to discover
the language models of this start-up, whose performances are
comparable with those of American AI leaders (OpenAI, Anthropic,
Meta), but at an infinitely lower cost to use.
On this 'black day' for the tech industry,
one company fared better than the others: Apple. Its shares
increased by 3.18%, even though the company is also concerned with
generative artificial intelligence via its Apple Intelligence
suite. One of the reasons for this resistance is that DeepSeek's
work validates several avenues chosen by Apple.
For the Artprice group, limiting the energy
costs of AI is a reality that could inspire the world of large
publishers of vertical data banks to which it belongs.
Apple Intelligence's vision reinforces Artprice's
convictions
Our reasoning is similar to Apple Intelligence where
Tim Cooks, Apple's CEO, has
perfectly understood that his clients are above all creators and
artists who want to work on their own while avoiding regular
plundering by third parties. At Artprice we have equipped employees
in our Artistic Direction department with the M4 chips equipped
with Apple's Neural Engine while awaiting Apple's AI Chip,
developed with Broadcom, known for the time being as
"Baltra".
Artprice analyzes the Peak Data
question and delivers its analysis of the Internet
ecosystem
For Artprice, Elon
Musk's warning, echoing predictions of
Ilya Sutskever, former scientific
chief of OpenAI, who from 2022 warned of the imminence of a "peak
data" moment, is a very concrete reality. This concept, borrowed
from "peak oil" theory, suggests that the amount of quality data
available for training AI, primarily from the web and online human
activity, has peaked and is beginning to decline.
Artprice considers that Peak Data, Slop and the gradual
destruction of free websites constitute a threat to the Internet
ecosystem. Likewise, "autophagy", where AI feeds on AI, can lead to
a collapse of models, which produce responses that initially become
less and less original and relevant, and then end up having no
meaning, according to an article published at the end of
July 2024, in the scientific journal
Nature.
Concretely, with the use of this type of data called
"synthetic data" (because it is generated by machines), the sample
from which the AI models draw to provide their answers
loses in richness.
The analysis by Eric
Schmitt, former CEO of Google, validates
Artprice's economic model for
AI.
In a conference at Stanford
University, Eric Schmitt
showed that he agrees with Artprice's reasoning, where the virtuous
economic model of AI can only be achieved through paid models, due
to the simple fact that AI requires, for its training, high
value-added data which is protected by copyright and other related
rights. This has been Artprice's Core Business for 28
years.
In addition, the former Google CEO indicates that the cash
burn of AI development is so high that a company will
need a paid economic model, since the data from the free Internet
will be 'exhausted' by peak data.
About the EU AI Act and
Intellectual Property regarding global AI
According to Perplexity AI, intellectual property case law
related to AI is still evolving, but several key principles are
emerging domestically and internationally.
The AI Act protects the rights of authors against the use
of their works by generative AI systems through several key
measures:
- Obligation of transparency: Generative AI providers must
indicate whether the data used to train their models is protected
by copyright. They must also provide a detailed summary of the
protected works exploited, in accordance with Article 28 ter of
the AI Act.
- Right of opposition (opt-out): Authors can refuse the
use of their works for training AI by exercising their right of
opposition. This mechanism is provided for by the 2019 European
Copyright Directive and reinforced by the AI Act,
although it remains difficult to apply in practice due to the lack
of control over the actual uses of works online.
- Traceability and accountability: The AI Act
imposes traceability requirements to ensure that AI developers
inform users and rights-holders about the origin of the data used,
allowing for better rights management and increased
transparency.
- Legal framework: The regulation aims to balance
innovation and protection of authors by establishing mechanisms
such as collective management, which facilitates the consultation
of authorizations and ensures fair remuneration to creators for the
commercial use of their works.
These provisions aim to protect the rights of authors
while encouraging ethical and transparent use of generative AI
technologies.
According to Artprice, within the framework of
Europe's AI Act and
the creation of an EU AI Office, each jurisdiction will face
numerous new obligations within sometimes very short deadlines. In
total, Artprice has identified 88 responsibilities at the national
level that are regularly discussed in its Boards of Directors and
its Internal Control meetings.
Lastly, during the recent AI Action Summit, President
Emmanuel Macron stated "We will
continue to defend copyright and similar rights. We
will continue to preserve human creativity. AI will bring lots of
revolutions, lots of things, but creativity remains human. AI is,
first of all, a true technological and scientific revolution for
progress and in the service of progress. This revolution must
be conducted in the service of humanity, to
improve lives."
How is the explosion of artificial intelligence
disrupting today's world and particularly the
art market? How to measure it in the face of the energy transition
that is also a major issue?
For thierry Ehrmann, Founder of Artprice and
CEO of Artmarket.com:
"We live in a world where computing power doubles every
six months. Gordon
Moore's law, (Founder of Intel), which historically
suggested that the number of transistors on a chip doubled every
eighteen months at equal price, has been surpassed by new 'scaling
laws'. From now on, the acceleration of generative AI could be
measured by a formula that I suggest as 'token (digital asset) per
Euro and per watt', that is to say a new unit of measurement
corresponding to the way in which AI processes a request for
information, taking into account each euro spent and each watt
actually consumed.
We are certain that it would be extremely
dangerous for LLM publishers to ignore the carbon impact. It is
simply excessive. Deepseek R1, but also in recent days a whole
series of researchers from the Anglo-Saxon world, have all
confirmed that it is possible to design LLMs with much more
energy-frugal servers. It is strange that in the midst of the
energy transition, this subject has been largely
side-stepped.
We must remember with humility that the human
brain's language functioning is beginning to be well
imitated by AI, while those of mathematics and geometry remain
largely misunderstood.
Furthermore, seen as an integrated circuit, the human
brain, from the scientific point of view, is to this day
inimitable.
Even if we begin to understand its algorithms and
reproduce them in very high capacity servers with several hundred
billion parameters, we still cannot reproduce them
with the same energy efficiency. Where the human brain weighs 1.4
kg and operates with only 30 watts, the AI giants in the
USA are racing towards nuclear
power plants and gigantic dams… Indeed, Microsoft is relaunching
the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the state of
Pennsylvania in the USA. Meanwhile, the human brain, with its
capacity for imagination and creativity, remains unbeatable by the
unit of measurement of AI which is the "token per Euro and per
watt".
According to thierry Ehrmann, Founder of
Artprice & Groupe Serveur and CEO of Artmarket.com, the Group's
line of action for its AI is very simple:
"There cannot be artificial intelligence without human
intelligence." This notion underlines
the importance that our group attaches to the interaction between
human intelligence and artificial intelligence in the development
of its own AI, called Intuitive Artmarket®. "This philosophy was
firmly anchored in our group when we started the beginnings of AI
in 1987 with shape recognition algorithms that were at
the heart of the Lumière® stations (artificial computer-generated
images) designed by Groupe Serveur and based on
advanced techniques such as 3D rendering, light-matter simulation,
vector modeling and raster mode."
Analysis of Perplexity AI by Artprice and Groupe
Serveur
All the dozens of subjects and studies of AI conducted
over many years by Artprice, as well as the history of the
development of its Intuitive Artmarket® AI, Blind Spot AI® as a
revolutionary concept in AI, of which Artprice is the author, are
available on: https://www.perplexity.ai/
Groupe Serveur, main shareholder of Artprice, which was at
the origin of the first Linux search engine in France Netscan in the 1990s, considers,
through its expertise of more than 38 years, that Perplexity AI has
emerged as the best solution at this point in the artificial
intelligence scene as a sophisticated search engine and chatbot. It
is by combining these two roles that it facilitates a deep
understanding of natural language.
Aravind Srinivas, Principal
Founder and CEO of Perplexity, co-founded with Denis Yarats,
Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski have managed to make
Perplexity AI a potential competitor for Google. In 2025,
Deep Web researchers use it as their main working tool.
The initiative behind Perplexity AI motivated the
development of a conversational engine that can answer various
questions in real time. This gives it, according to Artprice and
Groupe Serveur, an undeniable competitive advantage in the field of
AI, by scrupulously respecting copyright and related rights when
displaying its sources.
By investing in technical advances, Perplexity AI has
built an architecture that uses modern neural approaches. This
allows for better interpretation and management of complex
language-related tasks. The community of search engine
professionals such as SEO consultants, web SEOs and creative
netlinkers who work with SE algorithms is
predominantly in favor of Perplexity AI according to opinions
collected by Artprice and Groupe Serveur in January 2025.
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