The following open letter was shared in February 2025 by industry leaders ahead of the AI Action Summit in Paris:
The choices made in the development and deployment of AI systems impact our societies in profound ways.
These decisions can ensure AI works natively in multiple languages, contributes to the creation of life-saving drugs, and improves educational outcomes. Or they can fall short. To achieve the best out of AI, society must be in charge.
For that to happen, the building blocks of AI - the data that powers these models and the models themselves - must serve and be shaped by the public interest.
This requires the creation of new global public goods in AI. In practice, this means ensuring that high-value datasets are accessible in privacy preserving and safe ways, incentivising the development of smaller, open AI models that cater to people’s needs and are more environmentally friendly, and scaling up open-source AI to improve transparency, safety and accessibility for all. These resources will enable non-profits and researchers to make breakthroughs in life-threatening diseases such as cancer, while also creating opportunities for start-ups to thrive using these shared tools.
By prioritising these actions, we can better innovate more effectively and better serve people. We need a deeper understanding of how AI is being used in critical sectors like education, healthcare and homecare, fully grasping both its positive and negative impacts on individuals and communities.
At this month’s AI Action Summit in Paris, the launch of Current AI, a new public interest initiative will take us one step closer to ensuring revolutionary AI technology improves lives across the globe.
We, as leaders in the industry, support this mission. The future of AI should belong to all of us. Now is the time to make that happen.
Signed,
Anastasia Stasenko, Co-founder & CEO, Pleias
Arthur Mensch, Co-Founder & CEO, Mistral AI
Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Founders Forum Group, firstminute capital & Founders Factory
Clement Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
Eléonore Crespo, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Pigment
Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications, OpenAI
Jonas Andrulis, Founder & CEO, Aleph Alpha
Niklas Adalberth, Founder, Norrsken Foundation
Patrick Pérez, CEO, Kyutai
Reid Hoffman, CoFounder LinkedIn & Partner, Greylock
Ren Ito, COO, Sakana AI