La Machine tells you what you need to know about an ecosystem that is emerging as a global AI hub. This includes the latest headlines, product launches, company launches, and funding rounds.
Topics: AI breakthroughs across medicine, law, and engineering—from outperforming neurologists in diagnosis to smart energy systems, legal term extraction, and translation—plus philosophical and cultural reflections on AI, media, fairness, and ethics.
Also: With a fresh €36.36 million late-stage funding round and a bold new AI chip ready for market, VSORA is emerging as a flagship of Europe’s deep tech ecosystem, poised to challenge industry giants in performance and efficiency.
Six months after announcing a Series F funding round of €173 million at a €4 billion valuation, the French insurtech is accelerating its embrace of AI to transform its operations and products.
Six months after announcing a Series F funding round of €173 million at a €4 billion valuation, the French insurtech is accelerating its embrace of AI to transform its operations and products.
Also inside: How Delos is building an AI operating system for business; France can haz all your scientists.
CEO Pierre de la Grand'rive: "Our ambition is to offer generative AI that is truly useful to employees."
Startups lead the country’s AI adoption, while corporates lag behind; Germany and France remain divided over taxing US Big Tech but united behind the Eurostack initiative to build sovereign EU tech infrastructure; SeqOne acquired Paris-based Life-Soft to expand its genomic medicine platform.
CEO Geoffroy Martin: "We are in the middle of two revolutions, one which is purely within ad tech, which is that shift of privacy first and loss of signal on the open internet, which is going to be further accelerated and compounded by the very, very fast rise of AI."
The Nantes-based Deep Tech startup just raised €51.5M in new financing. Founder and CEO Ben Saada explains the company's blueprint for scaling its industrial recycling solution.
Nvidia tells Britain to be more like France, Mistral Bags €100M Deal
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.
Pigment launches AI agents; Aldebaran Robotics folds; Eurazeo bets on infrastructure.
Modern AI workloads were being forced to run on computing architectures designed decades ago. FlexAI wants to create a faster, more flexible system that enables rapid scaling.
Mistral says no no no IPO; Meta AI invades Europe; Frenchies take a stand against data centers.
Chief Science Officer Kévin Dedieu: "AI represents between 2-5% of our tech investments. Next year, we’re increasing that by 10%, with more resources dedicated to AI and using it for our core models. The cost of AI is relatively low, but its impact is huge.”
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