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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Artmarket is a global player in the Art Market with, among other
structures, its Artprice department, world leader in the
accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current
art market information (the original documentary archives, codex
manuscripts, annotated books and auction catalogs acquired over the
years) in databanks containing over 30 million indices and auction
results, covering more than 863,000 artists.
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databases from 7,200 auction houses and continuously publishes art
market trends for the main agencies and press titles in the world
in 119 countries and 9 languages.
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Artmarket.com makes available to its 9.3 million members
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constitute the first global Standardized Marketplace® for buying
and selling artworks at fixed or auction prices (auctions regulated
by paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article L321.3 of France's Commercial Code).
There is now a future for the Art Market with Artprice's
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project to consolidate its position as a global player in the art
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