Paris is set to become the epicenter of the global artificial intelligence conversation next week as world leaders, tech giants, and scientists gather for the AI Action Summit. Running from February 6 to 11, this week-long event aims to balance AI innovation, ethical development, and international cooperation.

The Paris AI Action Summit comes weeks after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s cost-efficient LLMs sent shock waves across the tech industry.

Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing will visit France from Sunday until February 12 as President Xi Jinping's special representative at the AI Action Summit, the foreign ministry said on Friday.

Who's attending and what will be discussed? - The event will address frameworks for artificial intelligence policy including ‘harnessing AI for the future of work’

The AI action summit in Paris will not yield the single global rulebook for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems that businesses desire – but it will help them better understand the different ways that policymakers and regulators around the world view AI governance and inform their approach to AI adoption in individual markets.

Global experts will debate threats from artificial intelligence (AI) at a gathering in Paris on Thursday and Friday, ahead of a summit of world leaders on the fast-moving technology.

As I write, there are a lot of powerful people around the world preparing to make their way to Paris – and a sense that many of them are holding their breath. On Monday, against the sumptuous backdrop of the city's 125-year-old Grand Palais,

Next week, top tech CEOs and leaders from about a hundred countries will gather in Paris to focus on the safe development of artificial intelligence (AI). All eyes will be on the US and china to see if they can find some common path amid the trade war and AI supremacy race.

AI innovations and governments’ preferences can make international consensus on governance at the Paris Summit challenging.