France’s answer to Stargate: Macron announces the investment of artificial intelligence

The artificial intelligence sector in France will receive 109 billion euros (112.6 billion dollars) of private investment in the “coming years”, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday before the summit of artificial intelligence in the country.

Speaking to the French broadcaster TF1, Macron described the pledge A private artificial intelligence project of $ 500 billion.

The American joint project, called Stargate, will see Openai, Oracle and Softbank Spending up to $ 500 billion on Amnesty International’s infrastructure in America over the next four years.

Meanwhile, French financing will include obligations from the United Arab Emirates, American and Canadian investment funds and French companies such as ILIAD telecommunications companies and orangeAnd the space and space group Thouses.

A few days before the AI ​​Ack summit in France, which started on Monday, the UAE said it will invest between 30 billion euros and 50 billion euros in building the AI’s data center in France as part of the campus that focuses on the development of technology.

ILIAD has committed to 3 billion euros on the infrastructure of Amnesty International, while Paris -based AI Mistral announced plans to invest billions to build its data center in France.

Victor Rebpily, CEO of Synthesia British AI, said that the 109 billion euros Macron plan was a “wonderful” thing for the European ecosystem-but he added that more need to ensure that the continent is able to compete with heavy weight like technology like states United and China.

“We need to control the appropriate institutions for Europe to flourish as an environmental system,” Ribarbelli told Arjun Kharpal from CNBC on Monday.

“It is great to invest more in infrastructure. I don’t think this is the only solution to the problem. There are many other things that we need to worry about as well. But what I think is really wonderful, is there a political will actually do something.”

Among the great attendees are Vice President of the United States JD Vance, European Union President Ursula von der Lin, German Chancellor Olaf Schools, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Google CEO Sondar Pachay, Microsoft President Brad Smith, CEO of Openai, Sam German, CEO of Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis and CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei.

Elon Musk is currently not to attend.

On Saturday, Axios reported that Openai Altman will warn world leaders this week that they need to expand their artificial intelligence mentality, rather than focusing on risks – as was the case in Europe – the leaders will instead look to adopt growth and opportunity.

The appearance of the Chinese Deepseeek AI Model R1 model in recent weeks has sparked discussions in the industry on the huge capital expenses companies that the infrastructure is committed to an account to train their systems.

Dibsic said the total training costs of the latest artificial intelligence model amounted to $ 5.6 million. but, Dibsic’s allegations were raised.

Last month, Semianlysis Research was estimated to spend Deepseek devices Top 500 million dollars During the company’s history, adding that the costs of research, development and ownership are on a large start.

On Sunday, Google DeepMind said that the Deepseek AI model is “perhaps the best work” that he saw outside China – but he added that from the point of view of technology, it was not a major change.

“Despite the noise, there is no actual new scientific progress … it uses known techniques (in artificial intelligence), adding that the noise around Deepseek is” slightly exaggerated. “

However, as companies spend billions of dollars on databases filled with semi -advanced sediments from the American chip maker NafidiaThe new Depsic model led to fears of the potential bubble in the area of ​​artificial intelligence.

Before the Summit of IQ, Mike Capone, CEO of the United States Software Company, told CNBC that Dibsic is likely to be a major discussion point this week as the world’s governments wrestle with artificial intelligence in China.

“This summit is not only related to the Supreme Organization – it is related to influence,” Capone told CNBC on Friday. “Expecting the strategic correspondence war as it reduces the leaders of Amnesty International in the United States, French and the United Kingdom of the importance of Depsic while China is working to prove that it is not just catching up with – it places the pace.”

He added: “The diplomacy of artificial intelligence has now become very important, such as the development of artificial intelligence. The power struggle will not be about who is building the best model; it will be related to those who control the narration of artificial intelligence.”

– CNBC from CNBC contributed to this report