The Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday that French President Emmanuel Macron has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, and India has accepted the invite.
“French President has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Artificial Intelligence Action Summit and we have accepted their invite. We will update you about further details,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
Jaiswal stated that India is developing its own AI program and is engaged in discussions with multiple partners on technology collaboration.
“We have our own program and we want to further develop that and in that regard we are in touch with several of our partners with whom we engage on technology issues technology collaboration and we would like to further strengthen them,” he said.
The AI Action Summit will be held in France on February 10-11 at the Grand Palais.
The summit will bring together Heads of State and Government, leaders of international organizations, business executives, academics, non-governmental organizations, artists, and members of civil society.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated on Thursday that the government is preparing to host open-source AI models on Indian servers.
“The team has finalized the necessary details, including server capacity requirements. These open-source models will be hosted on Indian servers soon,” Vaishnaw said.
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This development comes in the wake of the emergence of Chinese startup DeepSeek’s open-source reasoning model R1, which has demonstrated that large-scale AI models can be developed without extensive GPU access.
