JD Vance to attend AI summit in Paris, French official says

U.S. Vice President JD Vance volition be a two-day high-level acme focusing connected artificial quality successful Paris adjacent week, his archetypal scheduled travel overseas since taking office, a French diplomatic authoritative said Tuesday.

The AI Action Summit connected Feb. 10-11 volition stitchery heads of authorities and apical authorities officials, CEOs and different actors progressive successful the tech sector, which has been shaken up by galloping advances.

Vance has not made immoderate authoritative overseas trips since his inauguration past month. The White House had nary contiguous comment.

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The French diplomatic authoritative spoke connected information of anonymity arsenic the database of apical attendees has not been made authoritative yet.

China’s Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang is among those expected to be the summit, which volition beryllium co-presided implicit by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The acme volition instrumentality spot astatine the Grand Palais, past year's Olympic venue for the fencing and taekwondo competitions. A meal with apical officials and CEOs is besides scheduled astatine the Elysee statesmanlike palace.

Vance's travel comes aft U.S. President Donald Trump past period talked up a associated task investing up to $500 cardinal for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a caller concern of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank. The caller entity, Stargate, volition commencement gathering information centers and the energy procreation needed for the further improvement of the fast-evolving AI successful Texas, according to the White House.

Meanwhile, Chinese AI exemplary DeepSeek’s emergence has shaken up the tech sector, offering companies entree to the exertion astatine a fraction of the erstwhile outgo and providing the imaginable to propulsion different AI companies to amended their models and bring down prices.

Vance successful the past has acknowledged immoderate harmful AI applications, but said astatine a July Senate proceeding that helium worries that interest is justifying "some preemptive overregulation attempts that would frankly entrench the tech incumbents that we already have."