Is Europe Losing the AI Race?

Alexandre Mirlesse, Special Advisor on AI at the Paris Peace Forum Spoke to CGTN Europe at the Paris AI Action Summit.

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00:00This race, so far, we are not winning it.

00:05Europe's top talent has partly emigrated.

00:08You see a lot of the top talent in Silicon Valley coming from Europe, coming from our top schools.

00:13But what we want to show here is that we also have a vibrant ecosystem,

00:17with Paris growing as the capital of continental Europe when it comes to AI innovation.

00:23We have the political willingness to invest in AI.

00:27Today, as you might have noticed, President Macron announced 109 billion euros

00:32of investment in AI infrastructure in France alone, and that can be scaled up at the European level.

00:37We have the minds, we have an environment that's also prone to innovation,

00:44and we want to showcase that to the world.