00:02All right, let's head over now to Simon, who is on stage preparing for what is going to be a
00:11massive event.
00:12Simon, I can only imagine how incredible the energy is going to be for Elon Musk.
00:21Absolutely, Uptin. It's a sunny day and we are expecting a golden guest, aren't we?
00:26Elon Musk, who is expected to be speaking around about four o'clock here at Vivitech, certainly the main attraction
00:33at this year's event.
00:35And who wouldn't want to hear from the Tesla, SpaceX, the Twitter CEO, who's going to be speaking on a
00:42range of topics and who is going to be expected to clarify,
00:46to discuss a little bit about his business choices, who have certainly been controversial, unorthodox at times, even it can
00:55be said this year.
00:56Maurice Lévy, who is the co-founder of the Vivitech event, said that Elon Musk had caused a little bit
01:02of controversy perhaps over the last 12 months,
01:04certainly since he took stewardship of Twitter, but that he was an entrepreneurial genius
01:10and that it would be interesting to get an idea of what his thought process was behind many of those
01:16decisions.
01:16Let's not forget that he will be also discussing one of the biggest topics at this year's event, which is
01:22AI.
01:23He was one of the co-founders of OpenAI before leaving that.
01:27He did sign a letter back in March, an open letter, along with some other tech titans,
01:33warning about the threats of AI and calling for regulation.
01:36But has since founded his own startup in generative AI, which is x.ai.
01:42He's also someone who has clearly made clear his links to want to invest more in France,
01:49particularly with perhaps more regulation coming in the next few days.
01:53That's a topic that he'll be touching upon.
01:56And all of this, of course, before the Elyse Palace confirmed that he's going to be meeting President Macron.
02:02So a lot to digest.
02:03A lot of people are really looking forward to meeting Elon Musk a little bit later on in the day.
02:08All right, Simon, we'll look forward to that.
02:12Very, very exciting.
02:13Yeah, as you mentioned, a lot to discuss.
02:15I know a lot of people have a lot of questions for him.
02:18So hopefully there will be a lot of answers about the future of a lot of things,
02:22from artificial intelligence to electric vehicles and, of course, Twitter as well.
02:28I want to actually get now to our first guest on set here at Viva Tech News.
02:33Let's start that.
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