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The 5th GPAI Plenary brought some of the sharpest minds in AI governance to the OECD last week. The conversations that happened here about embodied AI, agentic systems, investor accountability and transparency will shape what comes next. A sincere thank you to everyone who joined us in Paris for the workshops and expert group meetings on the margins of the 5th Plenary of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. A special word of gratitude to our GPAI Co-Chairs, Denise Wong of Singapore and Hayun Kang of the Republic of Korea, for their leadership in steering this community and keeping our collective work grounded in both ambition and rigour. Over two days, we heard from an exceptional group of experts: On embodied AI and autonomous systems: Leslie Kaelbling (MIT), Tom Erez and Barath Harithas (Google DeepMind), and Gregorio Ameyugo (CEA) helped us think through what it really means for AI to act in the physical world, and where technical advances are fueling progress and where challenges to deployment still lie. On trustworthy AI investment: Amir Banifatemi and Francesca Rossi (GPAI TAI Expert Group Co-Chairs), Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes (Omidyar Network / Investor AI Resource Hub), Sophie Walker (EQT Partners), and Paul Fehlinger (Project Liberty) pushed us on the hard question of how financial incentives and trustworthy AI outcomes can actually align. On agentic AI, data governance, and privacy: presentations from the OECD Secretariat and Tokyo Centre of the GPAI Expert Community, the Infocomm Media Development Authority, Covington & Burling LLP, and the Spanish Data Protection Authority mapped out key points for governance. And throughout, the Hiroshima AI Process Reporting Framework 2.0 remained a throughline, a reminder that voluntary transparency, done well, can build the cross-border trust that AI governance so urgently needs. Special thanks to Ashish Tewari, Hector de Rivoire, Pauline Charazac, James G. and Yukio Teramura for their participation. These meetings matter because the people in them do. Thank you for bringing your expertise, your candour, and your commitment to the table. 🔔 Follow OECD.AI on LinkedIn to stay up to date with the latest on AI policy, governance, and the work of the GPAI community. #AIPolicy #GPAI #TrustworthyAI #ArtificialIntelligence #OECDai