Schneider Electric aspires the importance of the “deep moment” of China

It is likely that the so-called “deep moment” of China is good news in the global race to develop artificial intelligence models that can carry out more complex tasks, according to Jean-Pascal Tricoire, president of the French power team manufacturer Schneider Electric.

“In fact, I think it’s good news. We need ia at all levels,” Tricoire told Steve Sedgwick of CNBC in Converge in vivo In Singapore on Wednesday.

“We need AI to optimize your entire company at all levels, so you can buy better, consume better, decide better, better source. To do all this, we need models to operate on a smaller scale,” he added.

Tricoire said that the appearance of the application of China Depseek showed that AI models can achieve the same results as some of their most established US rivals, but with a much smaller model.

“Actually, AI will spread at all levels of architecture much faster,” said Tricoire. He added that Deepseek’s successful R1 model would be “fantastic” to improve security and reliability by implementing AI in dangerous teams.

“The dissemination of AI models at all levels of what we need is actually very good news,” said Tricoire.

Your comments come shortly after Schneider Electric reported Record sales and profits in 2024.

The company, which has been a great beneficiary of the artificial intelligence trend, increase Its profit margin of 2025 after a solid demand for the fourth quarter of data centers.

Schneider Electric’s actions increased by 33% in 2024, after a 39% increase in 2023. However, the actions that are quoted in Paris around 7% to date to date, with the recent promoter of China’s IA about the concerns of the investment of AI and the yields of the technological sector.

Data centers, which consume a increasing amount of energyThey represent a key infrastructure piece behind modern cloud and IA computing applications.

– Ganesh Rao de CNBC contributed to this report.