Share Tweet Share Share Email France’s progress as a leader in AI was a hot topic of conversation at last week’s Viva Technology conference in Paris. TakeAway Points: The Viva Technology conference in Paris last week was buzzing with talk about how far France has come as a leader in AI. French AI startup H generated $220 million in funding, including major U.
S. e-commerce player Amazon. This caused a lot of talk.
The boost U.S. tech companies have given France’s AI scene—Microsoft and Amazon alone have invested billions in the nation—was a recurring subject.
Viva Technology conference The French artificial intelligence company H, formerly known as Holistic, generated a lot of talk after raising $220 million in a seed round of funding from investors that included Google’s billionaire ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and the US internet giant Amazon. The addition of powerful U.S.
tech companies to their shareholder lists is a recurring motif among French artificial intelligence enterprises that receive substantial funding. The largest-ever pledge from Microsoft to date, 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion), was the driving force behind the influx of fresh private investments that France received earlier this month.
Viva Tech has AI everywhere AI permeated every aspect of Viva Tech . There was an entire avenue called “AI Avenue,” which was bordered by US IT companies like Salesforce and AWS, past the big, vivid pink “VIVA” sign facing the front. There was generative AI everywhe.
