French President Emmanuel Macron highlighted the importance of Franco-British collaboration in AI during his state visit to the UK this week, where he met with leading UK AI researchers and institutional representatives including UCL’s Professor Geraint Rees. At an AI focused event hosted at Imperial College London, President Macron took part in a panel discussion with UCL alumnus and co-founder of Google DeepMind, Sir Demis Hassabis, and French CEO and co-founder of Paris-based Mistral AI,