Trump, DeepSeek in Focus as Nations Gather at Paris AI Summit
AI Action Summit to concentrate on open-source tech and clean energy
Global agreement on AI principles looked for, not new policy
Top CEOs including from Google, OpenAI to attend
By Jeffrey Dastin and Elizabeth Pineau
PARIS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - All eyes are on the French capital next week to see if U.S. President Donald Trump ´ s administration can discover commonalities with China and visualchemy.gallery nearly 100 other nations on the safe development of synthetic intelligence.
About a year after world powers considered the threats of AI in England ´ s Bletchley Park, a wider selection of nations are collecting in Paris to go over putting the technology to work.
France, eager to promote its national industry, is hosting the AI Action Summit along with India on Feb. 10 and 11, with a concentrate on areas where Europe ´ s second-largest economy has a benefit: easily available or "open-source" systems, and tidy energy to power information centers.
Mitigating labor disruption and promoting sovereignty in an international AI market are likewise on the agenda.
Top executives from Alphabet, Microsoft and dozens of other companies are slated to attend. Government leaders are anticipated to dine on Monday with select CEOs. And talks will include one on Tuesday by Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, 2 people included in the summit told Reuters.
It was less clear whether the U.S. will reach agreement with other countries on AI.
Since taking workplace on Jan. 20, President Trump has revoked previous President Joe Biden ´ s 2023 executive order on the innovation, set in movement a repeat withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and dealt with Congressional calls to consider new export controls on AI chips to counter competing China.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance will attend for the American delegation.
A non-binding communiqué of concepts for the stewardship of AI, bearing U.S., Chinese and other signatures, has actually been under settlement and would mark a huge achievement if reached, said the individuals associated with the summit, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
They decreased to detail the communiqué or elaborate if there were any points of argument among the would-be signatories.
The White House did not react to a request for remark.
An authorities for the French presidency said the top will provide voice to nations around the world, not just the U.S. and China.
"We are showing that AI is here, that business need to adopt it, that it is a vector of competitiveness for France and for Europe," the Élysée authorities said.
NO NEW AI REGULATION
Safety dedications dominated the discussion in previous worldwide AI summits in Bletchley Park and Seoul. In Paris, creating brand-new regulation is not on the agenda.
Reeling from red tape and a reputation for danger aversion, Europe and especially France aspire to talk about frameworks for AI policy but not rules that might decrease their nationwide champions, setiathome.berkeley.edu which have lagged American companies. Countries like France are assessing how to carry out the EU AI Act in as flexible a method as possible so it does not innovation, individuals associated with the summit said.
Instead in focus is how to disperse AI ´ s advantages to developing countries, via cheaper models made by the similarity France ´ s startup Mistral and China ´ s DeepSeek. The Hangzhou-based company rocked global markets last month by showing it might compete with U.S. heavyweights on human-like thinking innovation, while charging much less.
France has actually seized on the development as evidence that the international race to more powerful AI remains wide open.
Among the top ´ s likely outcomes is that philanthropies and companies are anticipated to dedicate an initial $500 million in capital, going up to $2.5 billion over 5 years, to fund public-interest tasks on AI worldwide, the people said.
Another is resolving the energy crunch that industry thinks is inescapable from their power-hungry AI designs. A significant manufacturer of tidy energy in the form of nuclear power, France wishes to reconcile the world ´ s climate and AI ambitions.
France's decarbonized energy and "nuclear fleet, in the context of information center setups, is a possession," the Élysée authorities said. "We will most likely have statements in this regard at the summit." (Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin and Elizabeth Pineau; Additional reporting by Nandita Bose and Anna Tong; Editing by David Gregorio)