At the Kananaskis Summit the G7 Leaders agreed to an AI Adoption Roadmap that outlines the G7's shared vision and practical steps to help our small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) access, understand and adopt AI in ways that drive value and productivity. The information below reflects how G7 members are implementing the four broad commitments made by Leaders.
Accelerate AI Readiness and Competitiveness
At the G7 Industry, Digital and Technology (IDT) Ministerial Meeting, G7 members shared existing and planned AI investments and initiatives that align with the Roadmap commitment to Accelerate AI Readiness and Competitiveness.
Canada
AI for Growth: $174 million over three years towards targeted domestic adoption programs to help boost AI adoption by SMEs, expedite commercialization of AI research and grow businesses' capacity to adopt locally developed technologies. These programs are operated by ISED and delivered through Canada's three National AI Institutes and Global Innovation Clusters.
Budget 2025: $925.6 million investment to boost domestic AI compute capacity, build public supercomputing infrastructure and accelerate public service adoption. Of this amount, $800 million will be sourced from funds previously provisioned in the fiscal framework.
EU
InvestAI Initiative: €200 billion in public and private investment to scale AI infrastructure, applications and deployment across sectors, with a focus on strategic industries and SMEs.
Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) Work Programme 2025-2027: €1.3 billion investment to support deployment of critical digital technologies, including AI, cloud/data, cybersecurity and advanced digital skills, for businesses and public administrations.
Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025: €7.3 billion in funding for research and innovation across Europe, with a significant share directed to the green and digital transitions, including AI-related research and innovation.
Scaleup Europe Fund: will begin investing in 2026 to provide late-stage growth capital to high-potential European scale-ups in strategic technologies, including AI, helping bridge the financing gap so AI companies can grow, commercialize and remain in Europe.
AI Continent Action Plan: EU's roadmap to make Europe a "leading AI continent", organized around five pillars:--computing infrastructure, data for AI, skills and talent, regulatory simplification and AI adoption in key strategic sectors. It explicitly builds on InvestAI and the planned network of AI factories/gigafactories.
France
2030 plan: the "Pionniers de l'IA" call for projects dedicates €100 million to support high-potential, breakthrough AI projects in strategic application areas, such as industry, energy, cybersecurity, health and ecological transition.
"Osez l'IA" plan: combines awareness-raising, structured training, subsidized diagnostics, a guarantee fund and an accelerator for high-potential SMEs.
Fonds de garantie IA (AI Guarantee Fund): €24 million dedicated AI loan-guarantee instrument set up under the national AI strategy/Osez l'IA plan to de-risk bank financing for AI projects, particularly for SMEs and mid-caps, by providing state-backed guarantees on AI-related investments.
Germany
CRAI: a "living lab" supporting SMEs in developing and applying trustworthy AI-based business models, fostering cross-industry insights and practical solutions.
TrustKI: trustworthiness platform enabling user companies to build trust in provider companies and their AI solutions or data spaces.
MISSION KI: key digital strategy project funded with €32.5 million, improving data foundations for AI, strengthening trustworthy AI development and supporting AI innovation growth.
National AI Strategy includes over €3.5 billion invested in AI research, skills, applications, commercialization and infrastructure since 2018.
KIDA AI and Data Accelerator focuses on harnessing hands-on AI applications in agrifood research.
FAIR Forward: supports AI literacy and skills development in developing countries, reaching 180,000+ learners.
Italy
AI HUB for sustainable Development: launched in June 2025 following through on Italy's G7 Presidency, it is a collaborative platform that connects African innovators, G7 partners and private sector actors to scale responsible AI for industrial growth, including a digital platform, compute accelerator and infrastructure builder programmes that support concrete AI use cases and ecosystems across African economies.
AI4Industry (AI4I) Foundation: national AI institute based in Turin, with a government-backed annual contribution of €20 million designed to catalyze private investment while conducting application-driven AI research for sectors such as automotive, aerospace and advanced manufacturing, and supporting startups and young researchers.
Italy's eight Competence Centers: provide SMEs with guidance and training to businesses and support innovation, industrial research and experimental development projects for SMEs adopting advanced technologies.
Japan
Budget 2025: JPY 196.9 billion (approximately $1.3 billion) has been allocated to three pillars: Acceleration of innovation for AI and innovation by AI, Ensuring safe and secure AI and International alignment and cooperation. In particular, for "Acceleration of innovation for AI and innovation by AI," Japan has allocated JPY 178.0 billion (approximately $1.2 billion) to promote human resource development, enhance infrastructure, such as computing resources, and advance AI utilization and R&D through public-private collaboration.
AI Act: Japan enacted the AI Act in May 2025, which came into full effect in September 2025. In accordance with international guidelines, the Act aims to promote innovation while addressing risks, and to make Japan the world's best country to develop and use AI. As basic measures, the AI Act includes the promotion of R&D, securing human resources, promoting education and other related initiatives.
AI Basic Plan: Japan is in the final stage of formulating the AI Basic Plan, which is scheduled to be established in 2025. The Plan will set forth concrete policies based on four pillars: accelerated promotion of AI utilization, strategic enhancement of AI development capabilities, leadership in AI governance and continuous transformation towards an AI-driven society.
UK
AI Opportunities Action Plan: launched in January 2025 and aiming to drive development and deployment of AI in the UK. The government has committed £2 billion to delivering the AI Opportunities Action Plan.
Upskilling Workers: partnering with 11 major companies to train 7.5 million workers in the UK with essential AI skills by 2030.
Partnership between the government, Imperial College London and the World Economic Health Forum: delivering a new Centre for AI-Driven Innovation in London.
AI Sector Champions: appointing AI Sector Champions in key industries, like the energy industries, life sciences and professional business services, to work with industry and government and develop AI adoption plans.
AI Assurance: supporting the quality and growth of the AI assurance market by investing £11 million in assurance innovation and convening a national consortium of expert stakeholders.
AI Research Resource (AIRR): funding over £1billion to expand the resource and provide access to a suite of advanced supercomputers that is free to use for academics, public sector organizations and SMEs.
BridgeAI: expanding Innovate UK's BridgeAI program to more sectors across the industrial strategy to shrink the national adoption gap and grow the next generation of AI giants.
Local skills and benefits packages: accelerating economic growth, boosting local research and development in AI-related sectors and supporting the successful commercialization and scaling of local startups in the tech and AI sector by announcing four AI Growth Zones with £5 million of funding each.
US
AI Action Plan: Through its AI Action Plan, the United States is accelerating AI innovation and R&D, streamlining regulations to build AI infrastructure and exporting the American AI tech stack to our partners around the world.
The Genesis Mission is a national effort to unleash AI-accelerated innovation and discovery, building an integrated AI platform to harness US scientific datasets to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows and accelerate scientific breakthroughs.
AI-focused Executive Orders: Through AI-focused Executive Orders, the US is facilitating the rapid and efficient buildout of AI data centers and the infrastructure that powers them; promoting AI literacy and proficiency among Americans; and leveraging AI to address pressing healthcare needs, including pediatric cancer.
Develop an AI Adoption Blueprint
A key outcome of Canada's G7 Presidency is the development of an SME AI Adoption Blueprint to accelerate SME AI integration, informed by expert-driven, collaborative research activities and workshops, in cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and drawing on empirical G7 AI trends, adoption initiatives and frontline SME experiences.
The Blueprint presents actionable policy recommendations that governments can choose to implement to lower barriers and build enabling ecosystems for SME AI adoption.
Provides case studies of successful AI integration, offering concrete examples that businesses across sectors and countries can choose to replicate.
Expand G7 Talent Exchanges
Leveraging Mitacs' national and international programming, the G7 Talent Exchange will bolster Canada-G7 cross-border talent to connect AI expertise with businesses, accelerate AI adoption and help build a future-ready workforce.
In 2026, Mitacs will put out a targeted call for proposals, under the campaign theme: Accelerating AI Adoption by SMEs in Canada and the G7. The marketing materials will highlight how three complementary Mitacs programs support different stages of AI adoption. The outreach will help gauge the level of interest and secure buy-in for AI collaborations.
Unlock AI Opportunity Through Trust-building
Building on the Hiroshima AI Process, launched under Japan's 2023 Presidency, Canada's G7 Presidency led multi-stakeholder efforts to identify challenges and gaps in deploying trusted AI; published a Toolkit of SMEs Deploying AI that provides guidance to help businesses and organizations of all sizes deploy AI, with a focus on SMEs; and supported the continued uptake of the Code of Conduct Reporting Framework developed under Italy's 2024 Presidency.
