Prime minister Narendra Modi will be in France on Monday on a two-day official visit, where he will co-chair the third edition of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit alongside French President Emmanuel Macron.
Here are key things to know:
- Political leaders, including US Vice President JD Vance and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing will be in attendance, along with tech leaders like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google chief Sundar Pichai.
- European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is attending, along with officials and CEOs from 80 countries, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
- On Monday, around 1,500 guests in Pari’s Grand Palais will feature in lectures and panel discussions outlining the promises of and challenges posed by AI.
- AI safety is on the agenda in Paris, with an expert group reporting back on general purpose AI’s possible extreme dangers. But this time organisers are expanding the discussion to more countries, and widening the debate to a range of other AI-related topics. Like previous editions, this summit won’t produce any binding regulation.
- DeepSeek could be a buzzword this year. The Chinese startup stunned Silicon Valley heavyweights with its low-cost, high-performance AI models.
- Organisers want the summit to act as a “wake-up call” for France and the wider European tech scene to catch up with AI advances, which have been led by the US and China. Macron hopes to make room for others, including French startup Mistral, which also uses an open source AI model.
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