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Evening Standard
Technology
Martyn Landi

‘Long live AI’: Macron pitches France as place to build AI over UK and US

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris (Michel Euler/AP) - (AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron has told artificial intelligence (AI) firms they “have to choose Europe and France” for developing AI, as he closed the first day of a summit on the technology.

The two-day AI Action Summit has been seen as a key moment for nations to make their pitch to be a global leader on the technology, after Chinese app DeepSeek’s recent undermining of the sector created a potential power vacuum at the top of the industry.

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