The leaders of several major AI companies will join G7 heads of state for a working lunch in Evian-les-Bains on June 15–17
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Heads of state from France, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the U.S., as well as the European Union, will convene for the three-day event. A working lunch on Wednesday will bring political leaders together with technology executives to take up a range of issues — among them AI infrastructure, networks, and regulatory questions. G7 leaders will also address a declaration on the protection of minors online.
The Reuters attendee list extends beyond the three major AI lab chiefs. Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch, Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez, Black Forest Labs CEO Robin Rombach, Sarvam AI's Pratyush Kumar, Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli, Meta $META's Alex Wang, Salesforce $CRM CEO Marc Benioff, and Sakana AI's Ren Ito are also expected to attend.
Sam Altman was confirmed earlier this month as attending at the personal invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron — the first time the OpenAI CEO will have participated in the annual summit. Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, said that the company expects tech firms to leave the summit having agreed to a package of voluntary commitments, with youth safety sitting at the top of Altman's personal agenda. Lehane also cited frontier AI risks — particularly in the cyber and biological domains — as a key area of focus.
Both Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber have drawn scrutiny from governments and businesses over digital security risks since their announcements, according to CNBC.
Macron has pursued an active strategy of courting global tech leaders as France positions itself as an AI hub. After Macron sought out a meeting with SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son and asked him to establish data center operations in France, SoftBank committed to a €45 billion AI infrastructure investment in the country. At the same Choose France event, Salesforce put forward a €2 billion commitment to its French operations, while MGX — a UAE investment vehicle — and the state-backed lender Bpifrance jointly earmarked €7.5 billion for a new AI campus on French soil.
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