AI Action Summit 2025: France will partner with India in the field of AI, for Indigenous AI model
AI Action Summit 2025: At the AI Action Summit 2025, India and France have announced a partnership to develop a technical partnership, research, and indigenous AI foundational model in the field of AI.
India and France recognized the importance of a techno-legal framework at the AI Action Summit 2025 and highlighted the imperatives of democratic access to Artificial Intelligence (AI) resources and capacity building.
Addressing a round table meeting in Paris through video conferencing, Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, said that India and France need to be on the same page on policy positions and technical programs in various areas. Both countries can not only bilaterally but also at the international level benefit from the leverage of research and skill sets done on AI.
The roundtable meeting was held on Monday at the AI Action Summit at the University of Paris's Sciences Po campus, which will be co-chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday.
Sood said India's priorities in global AI policy and governance include responsible AI development and deployment, equitable benefit sharing, adoption of a techno-legal framework for AI governance, interoperable data flow, and cooperation on AI security, research, and innovation. The round table conference was co-chaired by Amit A Shukla, Joint Secretary, Cyber Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs, and Henri Verdier, Ambassador for Europe and Digital Affairs, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Participants from other countries in the conference highlighted the importance of sovereign AI models, ethical AI deployment, and the need to define globally accepted terminology and standards. Views were also shared at the conference on multilingual LLM, federated AI compute infrastructure, and interoperable access to AI research, datasets, and high-performance computing resources.
The meeting saw significant discussions on cooperation between India and France and highlighted opportunities to create indigenous models and adopt a balanced governance approach to mitigate risks while fostering innovation.
The importance of cross-border collaboration in AI research, datasets, and startups, as well as sustainable AI and energy-efficient computing, were highlighted, an official statement said. The conversation also discussed the societal impact of AI, data governance, and the role of global institutions in shaping AI security frameworks.
