Paris AI Summit Unites Tech Leaders to Advance Global AI Initiatives

CIOTechOutlook Team | Monday, 10 February 2025, 10:36 IST

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An AI summit in Paris, bringing together key participants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, aims to promote AI developments in areas including health, education, environment, and culture. A worldwide public-private collaboration called “Current AI” is set to be established to support extensive projects that benefit public needs.

Nick Reiners, senior technology analyst at Eurasia Group, noted an opportunity to shape AI governance in a new direction by “moving away from this concentration of power amongst a handful of private actors and building this public interest AI instead.”

France and Europe must seize the “opportunity” because AI “will enable us to live better, learn better, work better, care better and it’s up to us to put this artificial intelligence at the service of human beings,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday on national television France 2.

France is set to declare private AI investments totaling 109 billion euros ($113 billion) in the coming years, according to Macron, presenting it as “the equivalent” of Trump’s Stargate AI data centers initiative. French organizers are also optimistic that the summit will result in significant investment declarations in Europe.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is co-organizing the summit alongside Macron to engage more international players in AI development.

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