The Viva Technology conference in Paris last week was buzzing with talk about how far France has come as a leader in AI.
A great deal of chatter surrounded the French AI firm H, previously named Holistic, which raised a $220 million seed funding roundA common theme for French AI firms receiving large sums of money is that they're adding U.S. tech heavyweights to their shareholder lists.At Viva Tech, AI was everywhere. Past the large, bright pink"VIVA" sign toward the front, there was an entire alley called"AI Avenue," which was surrounded by U.S. tech firms such as Salesforce and AWS.
"France stands as one of Europe's most vibrant innovation hubs," Etienne Grass, the France managing director of Capgemini Invent, the digital innovation arm of Capgemini, told CNBC."The nation nurtures a thriving startup scene, marked by significant strides in AI," Grass added. Last week, Macron met with Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist of Meta, and James Manyika, Google's senior vice president of tech and society, among others, at the Elysee to discuss ways to make Paris a global AI hub.
In a fireside discussion last week, Google's Manyika said a lot of the innovation the firm has been bringing to the table is sourced from engineers in France.
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