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

Global consensus on AI concepts looked for, not new guideline

Top CEOs including from Google, OpenAI to attend

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 find typical ground with China and almost 100 other nations on the safe development of expert system.

About a year after world powers considered the risks of AI in England ´ s Bletchley Park, a broader range of nations are collecting in Paris to discuss putting the innovation to work.

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

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

Top executives from Alphabet, Microsoft and lots of other companies are slated to go to. Government leaders are anticipated to dine on Monday with . And talks will include one on Tuesday by Sam Altman, primary executive of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, 2 individuals associated with the top 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 revoked previous President Joe Biden ´ s 2023 executive order on the innovation, set in motion a repeat withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and faced Congressional contacts us to consider brand-new export controls on AI chips to counter rival 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 actually been under negotiation and would mark a huge achievement if reached, said individuals associated with the summit, who spoke on condition of privacy.

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

The White House did not respond to an ask for comment.

An authorities for the French presidency said the summit will give voice to countries around the globe, not just the U.S. and wiki.die-karte-bitte.de China.

"We are showing that AI is here, that business must embrace it, that it is a vector of competitiveness for France and for Europe," the Élysée official said.

NO NEW AI REGULATION

Safety dedications dominated the discussion in previous worldwide AI tops in Bletchley Park and Seoul. In Paris, developing new policy is not on the program.

Reeling from red tape and a track record for risk hostility, Europe and especially France are excited to go over frameworks for AI policy but not guidelines that might slow down their national champions, which have actually lagged American business. Countries like France are examining how to carry out the EU AI Act in as flexible a way as possible so it does not discourage innovation, the people included in the summit said.

Instead in focus is how to disperse AI ´ s benefits to developing nations, through less expensive designs made by the likes of France ´ s startup Mistral and China ´ s DeepSeek. The Hangzhou-based company rocked worldwide markets last month by revealing it might compete with U.S. heavyweights on human-like reasoning technology, while charging much less.

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

One of the top ´ s most likely outcomes is that philanthropies and businesses are anticipated to dedicate a preliminary $500 million in capital, increasing to $2.5 billion over five years, to money public-interest projects on AI around the globe, the people said.

Another is resolving the energy crunch that market thinks is inevitable from their power-hungry AI designs. A significant manufacturer of tidy energy in the form of nuclear power, France wants to reconcile 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 most likely have statements 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)