Trump, DeepSeek in Focus as Nations Gather at Paris AI Summit
AI Action Summit to focus on and clean energy
Global agreement on AI concepts looked for, not new guideline
Top CEOs including from Google, OpenAI to participate in
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 find common ground with China and nearly 100 other nations on the safe advancement of synthetic intelligence.
About a year after world powers considered the risks of AI in England ´ s Bletchley Park, a wider array of countries are gathering in Paris to talk about putting the technology to work.
France, excited to promote its national market, is hosting the AI Action Summit together with India on Feb. 10 and 11, with a concentrate on locations where Europe ´ s second-largest economy has a benefit: easily available or "open-source" systems, and tidy energy to power information centers.
Mitigating labor disturbance and promoting sovereignty in an international AI market are also on the agenda.
Top executives from Alphabet, Microsoft and lots of other businesses are slated to attend. Government leaders are anticipated to dine on Monday with choose CEOs. And talks will consist of one on Tuesday by Sam Altman, primary executive of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, 2 individuals involved in the summit told Reuters.
It was less clear whether the U.S. will reach consensus with other countries on AI.
Since taking workplace on Jan. 20, President Trump has withdrawed former President Joe Biden ´ s 2023 executive order on the technology, set in movement a repeat withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and faced Congressional calls to think about 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 been under negotiation and forum.batman.gainedge.org would mark a huge achievement if reached, said the individuals involved in the summit, who spoke on condition of privacy.
They declined to detail the communiqué or elaborate if there were any points of dispute amongst the potential signatories.
The White House did not react to an ask for photorum.eclat-mauve.fr remark.
An authorities for the French presidency said the summit will give voice to nations around the globe, not only the U.S. and China.
"We are revealing that AI is here, that companies must adopt it, that it is a vector of competitiveness for France and for Europe," the Élysée authorities said.
NO NEW AI REGULATION
Safety dedications controlled the conversation in previous global AI tops in Bletchley Park and Seoul. In Paris, producing brand-new regulation is not on the program.
Reeling from bureaucracy and a reputation for danger hostility, Europe and particularly France aspire to discuss frameworks for AI policy however not rules that might decrease their national champs, which have lagged American companies. Countries like France are evaluating how to implement the EU AI Act in as versatile a method as possible so it does not discourage development, individuals involved in the summit said.
Instead in focus is how to disperse AI ´ s benefits to developing nations, via less expensive models made by the likes of France ´ s startup Mistral and China ´ s DeepSeek. The Hangzhou-based company rocked international markets last month by showing it could compete with U.S. heavyweights on human-like reasoning technology, while charging much less.
France has taken on the development as proof that the worldwide race to more powerful AI remains wide open.
One of the top ´ s likely results is that philanthropies and organizations are anticipated to devote an initial $500 million in capital, increasing to $2.5 billion over five years, to fund public-interest projects on AI all over the world, the people said.
Another is resolving the energy crunch that industry believes is inevitable from their power-hungry AI models. A significant manufacturer of tidy energy in the form of nuclear power, France wishes to fix up the world ´ s environment and AI aspirations.
France's decarbonized energy and "nuclear fleet, in the context of data center installations, is a property," the Élysée official said. "We will most likely have announcements in this regard at the top." (Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin and Elizabeth Pineau; Additional reporting by Nandita Bose and Anna Tong; Editing by David Gregorio)