The list of guests at the top of the Paris AI is emerging: News

The list of guests at the top of the Paris AI is emerging: News


US vice-president, Chinese Deputy Prime Minister, President of the European Commission: the list of political representatives at the top for action on artificial intelligence (AI) in Paris is becoming clearer, even if the vagueness remains on others Big names in the ecosystem.

JD Vance, the American vice-president who had a career in Silicon Valley, will represent the United States at this summit organized on February 10 and 11, a French diplomatic source told AFP on Tuesday.

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also be present, India having been appointed co -president of the summit alongside France.

Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Ding Xuexiang is expected, as is the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen or the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

A hundred countries will be represented during this Grand Raout where heads of state, business leaders, scientists and civil society members with the goal displayed by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron to put France and the Europe on the global AI map.

In terms of international organizations, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, the director general of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the OECD secretary general, Mathias Cormann, the director of the International Agency of the International Agency ‘Energy, Fatih Birol, and the chairman of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, will make the trip.

Big names in American tech have also confirmed their arrival as Sam Altman, OpenAi boss who popularized generative artificial intelligence with the launch of Chatgpt at the end of 2022, but also Sundar Pichai (Google), Demis Hassabis, pioneer of the ‘IA and director of Google Deepmind, or Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, and Dario Amodei (Anthropic).

However, uncertainty persists on the presence of the owner of X, Elon Musk, and that of the founder of the Chinese start-up Deepseek, Liang Wenfeng, with which the Elysée said to be in “discussions”.

– “Make the word of France” –

DEEPSEEK unveiled its R1 conversational robot at the end of January, frugal but powerful, signing a resounding entry into the AI ​​global landscape and leading to the fall in stock market valuations of several American behemoths.

Faced with the Chinese shock wave and the strike power of the United States, which announced $ 500 billion in investments to develop infrastructure in AI, it is for France with this summit to prove its Credibility on the world scene of artificial intelligence.

“We intend to assert the speech of France, the word of Europe, but also the word of all the other countries which are directly concerned,” said the Elysée on Monday.

Many French CEOs will also be present at the top like Xavier Niel, owner of the Iliad group, and Rodolphe Saadé, boss of the Maritime Transporter CMA CGM, who launched the French Research Laboratory in Artificial Intelligence (IA) Kyutai, but also Airbus, Thales and EDF patterns.

Paris hopes “massive” investment announcements, especially for new data centers in France. The entourage of Emmanuel Macron evokes an order of magnitude “at least” comparable to that of the annual summit “Choose France”, whose last edition in 2024 attracted 15 billion euros in investments.

This sequence on AI will start on Thursday and Friday with a scientific conference at the Polytechnic engineering school, then a cultural weekend which will look at the questions posed by this technology in artistic creation and the production of the information.

The government wants, with these different components, to show the French “artificial intelligence and its applications without forgetting to approach all the complicated subjects head -on”, detailed the presidency.

The summit itself must lead to the creation of a foundation for the general interest for which Paris hopes to raise 2.5 billion euros over five years.

France is finally aimed at that many actors decide in favor of AI global governance in the context of a general declaration and make commitments for a sustainable and environmentally friendly artificial intelligence, but without framework binding.

Posted on February 4 at 6:33 p.m., AFP

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