At a French Alpine town known for its bottled water rather than high-stakes diplomacy, the leaders of the seven largest and wealthiest democracies will discuss how to solve pressing issues like Ukraine and the Middle East through Wednesday.
But the Evian agenda topics also reflect two interwoven anxieties: the Group of Seven’s dependence on China’s supply chains and reliance on the United States’ AI. The Trump administration’s decision to place export controls on Anthropic’s frontier models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 will be a “key topic” on the summit’s AI conversation, according to Andrea Renda, research director at the Centre for European Policy Studies who focuses on AI policy.
“The other six are quite annoyed and upset by the fact that the U.S. has actually tried to implement this differential treatment in terms of access to Claude Fable 5 for non-U.S. users,” Renda told Fortune, saying it’s “inaugurating an era” of weaponizing U.S AI against traditional allies.
While OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Meta’s Alex Wang are among the 11 AI CEOs attending the summit, it’s unlikely the leaders of France, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the European Union can actually deliver the summit’s goals to align on AI because of the U.S. and China.
