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

Global agreement on AI principles looked for, not brand-new regulation

Top CEOs consisting of 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 discover commonalities with China and almost 100 other countries on the safe advancement of synthetic intelligence.

About a year after world powers considered the risks of AI in England ´ s Bletchley Park, a broader variety of countries are gathering in Paris to discuss putting the technology to work.

France, excited to promote its national market, is hosting the AI Action Summit alongside India on Feb. 10 and 11, with a concentrate on locations where Europe ´ s second-largest economy has a benefit: freely available or «open-source» systems, and clean energy to power data centers.

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

Magnates from Alphabet, Microsoft and dozens of other businesses are slated to participate in. Government leaders are expected to dine on Monday with select CEOs. And talks will consist of one on Tuesday by Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, 2 individuals associated with the summit informed Reuters.

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

Since taking office on Jan. 20, President Trump has actually withdrawed previous 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 principles for the stewardship of AI, bearing U.S., Chinese and other signatures, has actually been under negotiation and would mark a huge achievement if reached, said the people involved in the top, 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 comment.

An official for the French presidency said the summit will offer voice to countries around the globe, not just the U.S. and China.

«We are revealing that AI is here, that business need to adopt it, that it is a vector of competitiveness for France and for Europe,» the Élysée official said.

NO NEW AI REGULATION

Safety commitments controlled the conversation in prior international AI tops in Bletchley Park and Seoul. In Paris, producing brand-new policy is not on the program.

Reeling from bureaucracy and a reputation for danger hostility, Europe and particularly France aspire to talk about structures for AI policy however not guidelines that might decrease their national champions, which have lagged American companies. Countries like France are assessing how to carry out the EU AI Act in as flexible a way as possible so it does not dissuade innovation, the individuals involved in the summit said.

Instead in focus is how to distribute AI ´ s advantages to establishing countries, through more affordable designs made by the likes of France ´ s startup Mistral and China ´ s DeepSeek. The Hangzhou-based company rocked worldwide markets last month by showing it might contend with U.S. heavyweights on human-like reasoning innovation, while charging much less.

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

One of the summit ´ s most likely results is that philanthropies and smfsimple.com services are expected to devote a preliminary $500 million in capital, going up to $2.5 billion over five years, to fund public-interest tasks on AI worldwide, individuals said.

Another is resolving the energy crunch that market believes is from their power-hungry AI designs. A significant manufacturer of clean energy in the form 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 installations, is an asset,» the Élysée official said. «We will probably have announcements in this regard at the top.» (Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin and Elizabeth Pineau; Additional reporting by Nandita Bose and garagesale.es Anna Tong; Editing by David Gregorio)