French President Emmanuel Macron trumpeted the benefits of artificial intelligence Sunday, ahead of a two-day Paris summit on the technology and its potential benefits and pitfalls.

Co-hosted with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the summit has a slew of stated aims including "mapping" AI governance around the world, promoting the idea of more ethical, accessible and frugal AI and pushing for European sovereignty over the technology.

But announcements ahead of the gathering could have been confused with Macron's annual "Choose France" investor conference, with tens of billions pledged for investment in projects including data centres in the host country.

France would receive "109 billion euros ($113 billion) of investment in artificial intelligence in the coming years" from the United Arab Emirates, "major American and Canadian investment funds" and French companies, Macron told broadcaster TF1 in a Sunday interview.

He also took time to plug French medical technology and homegrown generative AI developer Mistral.

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