Mistral AI targets $1B to scale globally and launches Mistral Code, Hugging Face debuts efficient robotics model SmolVLA, Kyutai unveils voice AI Unmute, H Company rolls out cost-cutting agents, and Aive raises €12M for enterprise AI video.
The French AI startup, backed by top investors, released a suite of cost-efficient autonomous agents that it claims outperform OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Designed to execute real-world tasks, these "action models" signal a shift from chatbots to true AI-powered productivity.
Other startups that raised a round between June 2 and June 6 include: Califrais, Thunder Code, Enrise, Reekom, Kumulus, Sounduct, Pletor, Delpha, Ordalie, Zenior, Kivala, and Inside Therapeutics.
Constellation Technologies wants to compete with Starlink. Aldebaran’s robots bid adieu. Pasqal’s takes a quantum acquisition leap, French regulators take on porn, hate, and #Skinnytok. Plus: The 2025 French Tech Next40/120 unveils its new digital favorites.
Constellation Technologies wants to partner with operators to offer space-based internet to help them compete with the SpaceX service.
Cathay Innovation launches a €1B AI fund; Macron inks a France–Singapore AI pact; Capgemini, Mistral & SAP join forces on GenAI for regulated sectors; Hugging Face unveils humanoid robots; and Mistral rolls out powerful new tools for code and agents.
Other startups that raised a round between May 26 and May 30 include: Hemerion Therapeutics, Kyron.bio, Dastra, Ecomer, Novem, and Danim. Plus: TreeFrog Therapeutics and Ankar.
Chief Product Officer Yuhki Yamashita discusses how the design company abandoned its traditional planning process to build AI-powered products as it adapts to the rapid evolution of GenAI capabilities.
E-commerce bill gets watered down, Brussels rolls out startup reforms, Alan shakes up public health coverage, crypto kidnappings surge, OVNI raises €60M for weird startups, layoffs hit OpenClassrooms, and Bpifrance celebrates 10 years of big bets.
Didask thinks so. Plus: France bags €17B in new foreign AI investments led by NVIDIA, Cisco, and Brookfield. PhotoRoom makes its first acquisition, Qubit & Sorbonne unveil a game-changing chemistry AI, and new funding floods into startups, including Veesion and Didask.
Other startups that raised a round between May 19 and May 23 include: SeqOne, Memority, Tilt Energy, TETMET, TamTam, Ensweet, PyxiScience, Feedgy, and Kumulus.
DiamFab bets big on diamond semiconductors to power EVs and clean energy, Paris overtakes London as Europe’s top startup hub, 300 orgs push for digital sovereignty, Maya Noël honored for tech advocacy, and Veesion leads funding with a €38M AI theft detection raise.
A pioneering startup is harnessing synthetic diamonds to revolutionize power electronics. With unmatched thermal and voltage properties, DiamFab aims to outperform silicon carbide, accelerating EVs, renewables, and the global energy transition.
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Dailymotion buys Mojo, a French AI-powered video creation app. Greenbids joins Perion Network for sustainable advertising. AI tracks surge on Deezer, while Atos unveils a €500M AI plan. Jean Zay supercomputer gets a power boost, and Le Monde partners with Perplexity AI.
Backed by €40 million in funding, CEO Khaled Maalej believes the company is set to disrupt the AI hardware market with its Jotunn8 chip, leveraging a fabless model and advanced chiplet architecture to slash the cost of deploying large language models and generative AI at scale.
