Maison de l'Intelligence Artificielle

What Maison de l'Intelligence Artificielle does

Maison de l'Intelligence Artificielle (MIA, or La Maison de l'IA) is a public AI mediation and awareness center headquartered at the ALPHA Sophia Antipolis innovation complex in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, France. Founded in 2020 and inaugurated in late 2019, it was created by the Département des Alpes-Maritimes under the Smart Deal 06 digital transition policy and is structured as a Syndicat Mixte, a joint public institution governed jointly by the Department, Communauté d'Agglomération Sophia Antipolis (CASA), CCI Nice Côte d'Azur, and Université Côte d'Azur. The organization operates over 1,000 m² of dedicated space within ALPHA, comprising approximately 30 interactive AI demonstrators, two themed showrooms, and an immersive experience area, programmed as a free public service.

Its core offering is a portfolio of free educational products aimed at three audiences: school programs (workshops, in-class interventions, the Hack Ton Futur digital platform, and the traveling exhibition "À la découverte de l'IA" serving all college students of Alpes-Maritimes), a public showroom with monthly Saturday openings, monthly "IA Dates" conferences, and IAfterwork networking events for the general public, and professional services including AI immersion sessions, generative AI workshops, SME webinars with CCI Nice Côte d'Azur, and AI integration support for local collectivities with SICTIAM. The 12-person team includes scientific mediators, communication, and event management staff under Director José Ammendola.

MIA functions as an ecosystem aggregator rather than a commercial enterprise. Its revenue model is mission-based public funding, with all services delivered at no cost to end users, and its strategic positioning centers on being France's first public AI house. Since 2020, it has sensitized over 130,000 people to AI, including 11,500 professionals acculturated in 2025, and it has expanded to co-host the departmental pavilion at the World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF) featuring 28+ local startups and to coordinate the first nationwide Semaine de l'IA pour Tous with 1,200+ events.

Name

Maison de l'Intelligence Artificielle

Legal name

La Maison de l'IA

Website

https://maison-intelligence-artificielle.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Maison de l'Intelligence Artificielle is a publicly funded AI mediation center at ALPHA Sophia Antipolis in France, delivering free awareness, training, and showroom programs to citizens, school students, and professionals across the Alpes-Maritimes department under the Smart Deal 06 policy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Education and Awareness Services

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Virtual & Hybrid Event Platforms (Webinars, Virtual Venues, Event Hubs) (THAHAOAA), Virtual Trade Shows & Expos (Digital Booths, Lead Capture) (MPAGAOAB)

Keywords

• AI education center
• AI awareness programs
• Science mediation services
• Interactive showroom
• Professional AI training

Headquarters

HQ city

Biot

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Public Funding and Mission-Based Support: La Maison de l'IA operates as a public interest initiative funded by the Department des Alpes-Maritimes (Département 06) under the SMART Deal 06 digital transition policy. As a joint public structure (Syndicat Mixte), it receives operational support from founding partners including Communauté d'Agglomération Sophia Antipolis, CCI Nice Côte d'Azur, and Université Côte d'Azur. Services are provided free of charge to all users.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

La Maison de l'IA is a public AI mediation center that delivers free, in-person AI awareness and acculturation services through a 1,000+ m² showroom of approximately 30 interactive demonstrators, two themed showrooms and an immersive space at ALPHA Sophia Antipolis. Offerings are structured in three audience tracks: school programs (workshops, in-class interventions, teacher training, mobile exhibition, Hack Ton Futur web app for middle schoolers), professional services (AI immersion, generative AI workshops, SME webinars, IAfterwork events), and general-public engagement (monthly Saturday openings, monthly conferences on AI topics, showroom exploration).

Product overview

Maison de l'Intelligence Artificielle is an AI education and awareness center (espace public dédié à l'IA) based at ALPHA Sophia Antipolis, offering a portfolio of educational products and services designed to democratize AI understanding across all audiences. The core offering centers on its public showroom and interactive demonstrations (approximately 30 AI demonstrators, two thematic showrooms, and an immersive space), complemented by school programs (visits, in-class interventions, traveling exhibitions, teacher training), professional training (AI immersion, generative AI workshops, customized corporate days, webinars, IAfterwork events), and a dedicated virtual platform (Hack Ton Futur for middle schoolers). The organization also participates in major events like WAICF and operates as part of the broader Terre d'IA ecosystem connecting regional AI stakeholders including 3IA Côte d'Azur, AKTANTIS, and University Côte d'Azur.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hack Ton Futur: Interactive web-app platform for middle school students featuring an online escape game, interactive historical timeline, AI quiz, construction game, and videos of industry professionals.
• ALPHA Sophia Antipolis

Products and services

• Showroom and Interactive AI Demonstrations Public AI showroom featuring approximately 30 interactive demonstrators (AI chess, smart cameras, chatbots, drones, wildlife monitoring from Mercantour Park, generative AI tools, Unitree G1 and Miroka robots), two thematic showrooms and an immersive space where families, students, seniors and amateurs explore AI applications, solutions, and ethical/societal stakes through guided exchanges with scientific mediators.
• School Programs (Visits, Interventions, Exhibition, Teacher Training) Educational offerings for middle schools (collèges) of Alpes-Maritimes, including 1h30 guided visits to the MIA showroom, in-class interventions requiring only a classroom with an interactive screen, the traveling mobile exhibition 'À la découverte de l'IA' (deployed for periods of 1 week to 3 months), and teacher training on AI fundamentals, responsible use, and pedagogical applications — all delivered free of charge.
• Professional Training and Workshops Professional AI sensitization services delivered in groups of 15–30 people, including 1h30 AI Immersion showroom sessions, 2h Generative AI practical workshops (LLMs such as ChatGPT, Mistral, Copilot; prompt engineering), AI integration support for local collectivities in partnership with SICTIAM, customized company days, bimestrial TPE/PME webinars with CCI Nice Côte d'Azur, and monthly IAfterwork networking evenings.
• Hack Ton Futur Virtual Platform Interactive web application (hacktonfutur.io) for middle-school students featuring an online escape game, an interactive AI history timeline, quizzes on AI in everyday objects, a construction game explaining how AI works, and bonus videos from industry professionals; self-serve, accessible to students and schools anywhere.
• Saturday Open Days (Samedis à la MIA) Monthly Saturday openings for the general public offering three guided sessions of approximately 1h15 each, including AI-history tours, interactive workshops, and access to all showroom demonstrators, free of charge.
• IA Dates Conference Series (Les Dates de l'IA) Monthly conference cycle held at Palais des Rois Sardes in Nice, addressing AI topics relevant to citizens — including health, mobility, culture, ethics, and territory — organized in partnership with Institut EuropIA and SICTIAM, and open to the public free of charge.
• WAICF Pavilion (World AI Cannes Festival) Annual dedicated MIA pavilion at the World AI Cannes Festival in Cannes featuring startup pitches, live demonstrations, expert video capsules, robot demonstrations (Unitree G1 & Miroka), intelligent camera demos, and a networking lounge that hosted 28+ startups from the local AI ecosystem at WAICF 2026.

Quantifiable outcome

• 130,000+ persons sensitized to AI since 2020
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability15 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Département des Alpes-MaritimesflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2019Primary founding and funding partner. The Department, under President Charles Ange Ginésy, initiated the MIA project and provides ongoing operational support through the SMART Deal 06 digital transition policy. The Department President serves as President of the Syndicat Mixte de la Maison de l'IA.
• Communauté d'Agglomération Sophia Antipolis (CASA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding partner providing strategic alignment with Sophia Antipolis technology park ecosystem. The CASA President serves as 1st Vice-president of the MIA Syndicat Mixte.
• CCI Nice Côte d'AzurcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding partner providing business ecosystem connections. The CCI President serves as 2nd Vice-president of the MIA Syndicat Mixte. Co-organizes bimestrial webinars 'IA pour les TPE et PME' with MIA.
• Université Côte d'AzurcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding partner providing academic and research connections. The Université President serves as 3rd Vice-president of the MIA Syndicat Mixte. Home to the 3IA Côte d'Azur institute.
• SICTIAMcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of France's largest public operators of digital and energy services. Partners with MIA on IAfterwork events and on AI integration support for local collectivities. Its President serves as General Secretary of the MIA Syndicat Mixte.
• Institut EuropIAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThink tank dedicated to AI awareness and training for the general public with ethical approach 'Penser l'avenir du monde en mettant l'Humain au coeur de l'IA'. Partners with MIA on monthly IAfterwork events.
• 3IA Côte d'Azur (Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Intelligence Artificielle)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of four Interdisciplinary AI Institutes created in France in 2019, part of the national AI strategy. Led by Université Côte d'Azur with ambition to develop an innovative ecosystem influential at local, national, and international levels.
• AKTANTISminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWorldwide competitiveness cluster dedicated to deeptech technologies, grouping over 300 industrial actors, large groups, SMEs, startups, research labs, and universities.
• DRANE (Délégation Régionale Académique au Numérique pour l'Éducation)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic digital delegation that collaborated with MIA to create the 'À la découverte de l'IA' exhibition for middle school students.
• ClusterIAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLaw 1901 association bringing together all AI actors in the region to foster collaboration and ecosystem development.
• SKEMA Business SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBusiness school housed at ALPHA Sophia Antipolis innovation hub, contributing to the broader ecosystem alongside MIA.
• Gendarmerie Nationale (Cybersecurity Teams)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational police cybersecurity specialized teams located at ALPHA Sophia Antipolis innovation hub, part of the broader innovation ecosystem.
• World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerAnnual flagship AI event in Cannes where MIA hosts a dedicated pavilion for Alpes-Maritimes AI ecosystem actors, featuring startup pitches and demos. The Department des Alpes-Maritimes is co-founder and principal partner of WAICF.
• Génération Azur IAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAI art group within the IBM Photoclub Côte d'Azur, featuring 18 artists creating with AI tools. Signed partnership convention with MIA in 2025. Produced the book 'Les IA n'ont jamais vu d'éléphants' with MIA support.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Universcience (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie): Universcience is France's leading public science and technology mediation institution, comparable to MIA as a publicly-funded science awareness organization targeting general public, schools, and professionals, though at a national scale.
• Mila (Quebec AI Institute): Mila is a leading AI research institute with a strong public-interest and ecosystem-building mission, comparable to MIA as a publicly-supported AI hub that combines research, training, and broad public outreach. MIA signed the Montreal Declaration via Obvia partnership, signaling direct peer alignment.

Direct peers

• Institut EuropIA: Institut EuropIA is a French think tank dedicated to AI awareness and training with a human-centric, ethical approach. It is a direct operational partner of MIA (co-organizing the IA Dates conferences and IAfterwork events) and shares the same public AI mediation mission.
• PRAIRIE (Paris Artificial Intelligence Research Institute): PRAIRIE is one of the four French 3IA Institutes, comparable to MIA as a sister 3IA Côte d'Azur ecosystem partner. Both are publicly funded AI institutes combining research excellence with territory-level AI diffusion and training.
• SCAI (Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence): SCAI is the fourth French 3IA Institute, structurally a peer to MIA's 3IA Côte d'Azur partner. Both operate as multi-stakeholder public AI hubs with research, training, and socioeconomic outreach missions.
• MIAI (Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence - Grenoble): MIAI is one of the four French 3IA Institutes, directly comparable to MIA's network. Both are public AI institutes combining research, education, and regional ecosystem animation under the French national AI strategy.
• ANITI (Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute): ANITI is one of the four French 3IA Institutes and a structural peer to MIA's 3IA Côte d'Azur partner. Both organizations operate as publicly-funded AI hubs with research, training, and industry-academic transfer mandates.
• 3IA Côte d'Azur: 3IA Côte d'Azur is one of the four 3IA Institutes and a founding partner of MIA, hosted at Université Côte d'Azur. Both are publicly-funded AI entities in the same territory with overlapping research-education-ecosystem mandates.

Regional players

• AKTANTIS: AKTANTIS is a deeptech competitiveness cluster grouping over 300 industrial, academic, and startup actors in the same regional ecosystem that MIA animates. Both serve as core territorial orchestrators of AI/deeptech innovation and education.

Emerging players

• La Cité de l'IA (Lyon's AI outreach initiatives): La Cité de l'IA is a French AI mediation and awareness initiative focused on democratizing AI for citizens. It is comparable to MIA as a similarly-missioned public-interest AI education center, representing the type of entity that could scale MIA's model in other regions.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Maison_IA
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@maison_ia06
• Facebookfacebook.com/MaisonAI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/maison-de-l-intelligence-artificielle
• Instagraminstagram.com/maison_ia06

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

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