AI Daily Brief — 10 February 2025
Monday opened the Paris AI Action Summit at the Grand Palais with PM Modi co-chairing alongside Macron. Modi delivered the opening address — “writing the code for humanity” — and a France-India bilateral package launched the India-France AI Roadmap, with Indian startups joining Station F and UPI rollout expanded in France. Macron presented the €109-billion private AI investment package: UAE €30-50B for a 1-GW data-centre campus, Brookfield €20B, Apollo $5B in AI energy, Amazon ~€1.2B. The Current AI public-interest foundation launched with a $400-million endowment from nine governments plus Google, Salesforce, Hugging Face, Sakana AI, and Omidyar. Sundar Pichai pushed a “don’t miss out” acceleration mantra. The summit’s rebrand from “Safety” to “Action” became explicit.
Top stories
- Paris AI Action Summit opens at Grand Palais, co-chaired Macron + Modi. Over 1,000 participants from more than 100 countries. Modi opening address frames AI as “writing the code for humanity.” via PIB India
- Macron unveils €109B private AI investment package for France. “The equivalent for France of what the US announced for Stargate” — UAE €30-50B for 1-GW data-centre campus, Brookfield €20B, Apollo Global Management $5B in AI energy, Amazon ~€1.2B. via Bloomberg
- India-France launch AI Roadmap as cornerstone bilateral. “Safe, open, secure and trustworthy” AI; Indian startups join Station F; UPI rollout in France expanded. Letter of Intent on Small and Advanced Modular Reactor cooperation (GCNEP/DAE × INSTN/CEA). via PIB Joint Statement
- Current AI foundation launches with $400M endowment for public-interest AI. France-led, backed by nine governments (France, Germany, Finland, Chile, India, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Slovenia, Switzerland) plus Google, Salesforce, Hugging Face, Sakana AI, and Omidyar. Targets $2.5B over five years for datasets and open-source tooling. via Fortune
- Sundar Pichai’s “don’t miss out” mantra; Google reaffirms ~$75B 2025 capex. Highlighted the Global AI Opportunity Fund for workforce training. via Google
- Mistral unveils sovereign-EU partnerships at home turf. Expanded SAP partnership for “first full sovereign AI stack for Europe” on SAP BTP, plus defence vision-language-action model collaboration with Helsing and an Airbus engineering deal across commercial, helicopter, defence, and space divisions. via VentureBeat
Who shipped
Beyond Mistral’s partnership stack, frontier labs shipped policy positioning, not products. Anthropic‘s Amodei publicly warned “greater focus and urgency is needed” on safety in opposition to the Action rebrand. OpenAI‘s Altman attended; his high-profile remarks came Day 2.
Quiet corners
Fei-Fei Li urged AI governance grounded in “science not science fiction”; Yann LeCun warned against “regulating open source out of existence” and met Macron on the eve; Yoshua Bengio pushed the International AI Safety Report he chaired (released a week earlier). via TechXplore
By the numbers
- €109B — French private AI investment package
- $400M — Current AI foundation initial endowment
- 9 founding government backers of Current AI
- 1,000+ Summit participants from 100+ countries
- Most-mentioned person: Emmanuel Macron
Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 10 February 2025.