New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for France today to attend and co-chair the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit with French President Immanuel Macron. The two-day summit will be held at the Grand Palais in Paris and will be attended by over 1,500 guests, including more than 100 world leaders.

The Paris AI Summit comes at a time when the AI rivalry between the West and China is at a tipping point, with low-cost DeepSeek AI competing with leading Western alternatives such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.

The summit will also be an opportunity for France and India to showcase their soft power in an area that is likely to be a game changer in the not too distant future. Following the AI Action Summit, Pres...