Deep Dives — AI
Descartes Underwriting: Doubling Down On Climate Risk As Insurance Industry Retreats
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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VSORA: The French AI Chipmaker Taking on NVIDIA with High-Performance, Cost-Efficient AI Hardware
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.
Secondhand Shopping Made Easy: Dero’s Mission to Transform France’s Circular Economy
Dero is reshaping secondhand shopping in France by aggregating 65+ trusted marketplaces into one interface. With 150,000 users and a new mobile app, Dero wants to make buying used simple, secure, better for your wallet -- and the planet.
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🤖 La Machine #34: H Company's Autonomous Agent Assault Begins 🤖
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.
H Company Launches Autonomous Agent Suite To Leapfrog Tech Giants
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.
French Tech Funding Wire June 6: Fabriq, Moments Lab, Aive & More!
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.
🇫🇷 French Tech Wire: France Joins Space Com Race
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.