 summit after announcing plans for a rival conference in Paris just a fortnight later. Xavier Niel, the telecoms mogul and co-owner of French paper Le Monde, has launched a bid to woo AI companies to France with what he has dubbed Europe's 'leading AI conference'. The billionaire's Iliad Group will host a gathering of AI professionals sponsored by chipmaker Nvidia on Nov 17 in Paris, 15 days after the UK hosts tech leaders at Bletchley Park to discuss the risks posed by the new technology. Mr Niel, who is an investor in Vodafone, said he would also invest €200m (£174m) in AI, including establishing a research lab and a new supercomputer. The plans represent a clear challenge to Britain's ambitions to become a global hub for the technology. The British government is also planning an investment in a public 'AI research resource', spending £100m buying up Nvidia microchips to support future research. Iliad said its conference at event space Station F was 'designed to become Europe's leading annual AI event'. It will focus on the latest advances and industry use cases.){kind=link}
Bid to woo companies to France challenges Britain’s ambitions to be the global AI hub
A French billionaire has put further pressure on Rishi Sunak’s artificial intelligence (AI) summit after announcing plans for a rival conference in Paris just a fortnight later.
Xavier Niel, the telecoms mogul and co-owner of French paper Le Monde, has launched a bid to woo AI companies to France with what he has dubbed Europe’s “leading AI conference”.
The billionaire’s Iliad Group will host a gathering of AI professionals sponsored by chipmaker Nvidia on Nov 17 in Paris, 15 days after the UK hosts tech leaders at Bletchley Park to discuss the risks posed by the new technology.
Mr Niel, who is an investor in Vodafone, said he would also invest €200m (£174m) in AI, including establishing a research lab and a new supercomputer.