The UDOPIA doctoral program in Artificial Intelligence will build on the extensive forces of Université Paris-Saclay in AI and related areas to create a unique cohort of PhD students trained at the forefront of core AI topics, specialized AI topics, and applications of AI. The students will benefit from a rich ecosystem with strong links to industry, and from the existing instruments such as the DataIa convergence institute in AI or the SaclayIA computing platform. Specific accompanying measures will foster interdisciplinarity, mobility, entrepreneurship, and the wide diffusion of research results to academia, industry and the general public.