AI Action Summit 2025: PM Modi’s Visit to France Will Advance AI Technology in India , He addressed AI summit and announced that India is developing its own large language model .
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to France is as diplomatic as it is a potential revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) cooperation between India and France. Co-chairing the AI Action Summit in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron, PM Modi has already put in place the building blocks for stronger collaborations in AI, research, innovations, and implementation. This visit holds the promise of changing the constellation of AI technology not just in India but the whole world.
Key Highlights of the Visit
- AI Action Summit: PM Modi and President Macron have concentrated efforts on enhanced cooperation towards the development of AI, with a focus on providing joint funding and engaging in research.
- Nuclear Fusion and AI: Together, the two are also visiting the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project in Marseille, where AI is significant in the development of nuclear technology.
- Defense and AI: Discussion covers other areas, including automation and the application of AI in security and defense systems for more effective military operations.
- Investment and Startups: AI employs France’s leading technology companies and startups as potential candidates for innovation in India.
AI Summit 2025: A Global Platform
The France AI Action Summit is being held on February 10 and 11, 2025, where global leaders and stakeholders, including heads of state, international organizations, tech CEOs, civic representatives, and researchers of almost 100 countries, gather at the Grand Palais. While hosting India, who is in a co-chairing position, takes the responsibility with global AI legislation and ethics regulations.
Main Themes of the AI Summit
- Providing Public Interest AI—Maximizing the use of AI to benefit a society.
- Future of Work: contemplating the changes that will be brought by AI to industries and employment.
- Innovation and Culture—AI’s place in art, music, literature, and other such forms of creativity.
- Trust in AI: responsible AI that guards security and privacy.
- Global Governance AI: Setting an international standard on the deployment of AI and its ethicality.
PM Modi’s Address at the AI Summit
At the AI Action Summit in Paris today, February 11, 2025, PM Narendra Modi announced that India is developing its own large language model to cater to its diverse population.He focused India’s public-private partnership strategy to bring computing power within reach of researchers and startups.
Emphasizing the revolutionary capability of AI, Modi said, “We are on the threshold of the AI era that will shape the destiny of humankind.” In order to allay fears that AI would be more intelligent than humans, he assured that humans are the ones who control AI’s future. He likened the India-France AI collaboration to their International Solar Alliance partnership, advocating for sustainable AI that is both energy-efficient and data-conscious.
Modi also stressed India’s digital public infrastructure success, benefiting over 1.4 billion people at a low cost. He highlighted AI’s role in modernizing governance and addressing cybersecurity, disinformation, and deepfake concerns. “Governance is about promoting innovation for the global good,” he stated, emphasizing responsible AI development.
Addressing the AI Action Summit in Paris. https://t.co/l9VUC88Cc8
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 11, 2025
How This Visit Can Advance AI Technology in India
- Reinventing Health Care and Education through Innovation—France boasts some of the biggest AI researchers, enabling Indian scientists to push the frontiers of their innovation. Collaboration at the AI Action Summit guarantees maximized use of AI in agriculture, healthcare, and education.
- AI in Smart Weaponry & Defense Mechanisms France’s advanced AI-fueled surveillance systems and smart weaponry pave the path for India’s defense mechanism’s reliance on AI, especially where defense borders cyber security.
- Strengthening Investments and Startups: AI Sector With investment coming from AI firms and French entrepreneurs, there is credible hope that Modi’s tour aids Indian startups in developing a complete AI ecosystem.
- Clean Energy and Nuclear Power AI Application: France’s ITER project relies on AI to refine nuclear fusion research. India’s participation on ITER would provide him with useful knowledge on how to employ AI into producing clean energy.
- AI Development Policies and Ethics: Both countries can combine efforts in AI regulation crafting as well as an ethics policy of AI ensuring its application while safeguarding security and privacy.
India And The World In AI
The invite to co-chair the AI summit proves India’s growing role in global AI control, which is an achievement considering the initiatives IndiaAI Mission already launched to facilitate the build of AI in many fields. The mission aims at showcasing the India AI Mission as a model. The campaign “Make AI in India and Make AI for India” seeks to foster an environment where innovation is undertaken by citizens and the merits enjoyed by all.
Furthermore, India engages in
- GPAI (Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence): Focusing on AI for good concern.
- Bridging the AI Divide: Building de facto policy for inclusive governance of AI.
- Enabling the Global South: ensuring adoption of AI is done equitably in every corner of the world.
Conclusion
In the places where AI implementation and innovation are concerned, Modi’s visit to France marks a shift in paradigm for the development of AI in India. India is now poised to emerge as a global AI superpower with premium research, investment in high technology, and collaborative osmosis of ideas coming from France. This association makes sure that as the world gets more AI integrated, India continues to lead the AI revolution.
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