Trump, DeepSeek in Focus as Nations Gather at Paris AI Summit

AI Action Summit to concentrate on open-source tech and clean energy

Global consensus on AI principles looked for, not brand-new policy

Top CEOs consisting of from Google, OpenAI to go to

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 nearly 100 other countries on the safe advancement of synthetic intelligence.

About a year after world powers considered the threats of AI in England ´ s Bletchley Park, a larger variety of nations are gathering in Paris to go over putting the innovation to work.

France, eager to promote its national market, 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 an advantage: higgledy-piggledy.xyz freely available or “open-source” systems, demo.qkseo.in and tidy energy to power data centers.

Mitigating labor interruption and promoting sovereignty in a worldwide AI market are also on the agenda.

Magnates from Alphabet, Microsoft and lots of other organizations are slated to attend. Government leaders are anticipated to dine on Monday with choose CEOs. And talks will include one on Tuesday by Sam Altman, primary executive of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, two individuals involved in the top informed Reuters.

It was less clear whether the U.S. will reach consensus with other countries on AI.

Since taking office on Jan. 20, President Trump has revoked previous President Joe Biden ´ s 2023 executive order on the technology, set in motion a repeat withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and dealt with Congressional contacts us to consider brand-new export controls on AI chips to counter competing China.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will participate in 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 would mark a big achievement if reached, said the people associated with the top, who spoke on condition of privacy.

They declined to detail the communiqué or elaborate if there were any points of difference among the potential signatories.

The White House did not respond to a demand for comment.

An authorities for the French presidency said the summit will provide voice to nations around the globe, not only the U.S. and China.

“We are showing that AI is here, that companies must embrace 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 conversation in prior global AI summits in Bletchley Park and Seoul. In Paris, producing new guideline is not on the agenda.

Reeling from bureaucracy and a credibility for risk hostility, Europe and particularly France aspire to discuss frameworks for AI policy but not rules that might slow down their national champions, which have lagged American companies. Countries like France are evaluating how to execute the EU AI Act in as flexible a method as possible so it does not dissuade development, the individuals included in the summit said.

Instead in focus is how to distribute AI ´ s advantages to countries, via cheaper designs made by the likes of France ´ s start-up 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 reasoning technology, while charging much less.

France has seized on the advancement as evidence that the international race to more effective AI remains large open.

One of the top ´ s most likely outcomes is that philanthropies and businesses are anticipated to commit a preliminary $500 million in capital, going up to $2.5 billion over five years, to fund public-interest tasks on AI around the world, the individuals said.

Another is dealing with the energy crunch that market thinks is unavoidable from their power-hungry AI models. A significant producer of tidy energy in the type of nuclear power, France wishes to fix up the world ´ s environment and AI ambitions.

France’s decarbonized energy and “nuclear fleet, in the context of data center setups, is an asset,” the Élysée authorities said. “We will most likely have announcements 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)