Paris AI summit kicks off with Indian Prime Minister, President Macron present
The much-touted Paris AI Action Summit kicked off in the capital city of France on Monday with world leaders and tech moguls flocking to the event. On Monday, the AI Action Summit was started in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who will be co-chairing the two day event.
The Paris Summit will be focused on undertaking three fundamental goals that include making AI accessible to numerous users while delivering dependable and safe systems and also establishing worldwide AI governance that incorporates everyone effectively.
The conference will explore five main topics consisting of public service AI alongside the future of work and innovation and culture and trust in AI and global AI governance. The upcoming event will introduce an essential outcome through a foundation which evaluates AI from a public interest perspective for Global South requirements.
During his first global official appearance as Vice President, JD Vance will join OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the summit to showcase American leadership. The upcoming India-China meeting at the AI Summit will also be important with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping deciding to send Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing as his special envoy.
Organizers have scheduled the Second India-France Al Policy Roundtable during this Summit as an ancillary meeting. The organizing team consists of the Indian Institute of Science (IIS) Bengaluru together with the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and Nasscom and IndiaAl Mission of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The global Al development will be evaluated through vital policy positions and France and India will analyze cooperative prospects during this Roundtable meeting.
The Summit occurs at a time when India develops its approach to the worldwide AI arms race.
The government chose 10 companies to obtain 18,693 graphics processing units (GPUs) needed to develop machine learning resources which will enable the founding model production. The IndiaAI Mission with its Rs 10,370 crore budget was intended to acquire 10,000 GPUs yet the selected companies will supply many more devices.
Jio Platforms, Hiranandani Group-backed Yotta and Tata Communications are among the 10 authorized companies which provide GPU services in addition to E2E Networks, NxtGen Datacenter, CMS Computers, Ctrls Datacenters, Locuz Enterprise Solutions, Orient Technologies and Vensysco Technologies.
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