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

Global consensus on AI principles sought, not new regulation

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 development of artificial 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 talk about putting the technology to work.

France, eager to promote its nationwide industry, is hosting the AI Action Summit together with India on Feb. 10 and 11, with a focus on locations where Europe ´ s second-largest economy has an advantage: freely available or "open-source" systems, and tidy energy to power information centers.

Mitigating labor disturbance 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 anticipated to dine on Monday with choose CEOs. And talks will consist of one on Tuesday by Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, two individuals associated with the summit told Reuters.

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

Since taking workplace on Jan. 20, President Trump has withdrawed previous President Joe Biden ´ s 2023 executive order on the innovation, set in motion a repeat withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and dealt with Congressional contacts us 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 been under settlement and would mark a huge achievement if reached, said the people included in the summit, who spoke on condition of privacy.

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

The White House did not react to an ask for remark.

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

"We are showing that AI is here, that companies should embrace 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 previous global AI tops in Bletchley Park and Seoul. In Paris, producing new guideline is not on the agenda.

Reeling from bureaucracy and a credibility for risk aversion, Europe and particularly France are eager to go over structures for AI policy however not guidelines that might decrease their national champions, which have lagged American business. Countries like France are evaluating how to carry out the EU AI Act in as versatile a method as possible so it does not dissuade development, individuals associated with the top said.

Instead in focus is how to disperse AI ´ s advantages to developing countries, ura.cc by means of more affordable 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 might vie with U.S. heavyweights on human-like reasoning technology, while charging much less.

France has actually taken on the advancement as proof that the worldwide race to more effective AI remains broad open.

Among the summit ´ s most likely outcomes is that philanthropies and companies are expected to dedicate an initial $500 million in capital, increasing to $2.5 billion over five years, to fund public-interest jobs on AI worldwide, the individuals said.

Another is resolving the energy crunch that industry believes is inescapable from their power-hungry AI models. A major manufacturer of tidy energy in the type of nuclear power, France desires to reconcile the world ´ s environment and AI ambitions.

France's decarbonized energy and "nuclear fleet, in the context of information center installations, is a possession," the Élysée authorities said. "We will more than likely have announcements in this regard at the summit." (Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin and Elizabeth Pineau