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🌞 Deep Dive: Video startup Aive combines analytical AI with generative capabilities. The system first uses multiple AI models to extract comprehensive data from videos, then employs generative AI for specific tasks like summarization, reformatting, or adaptation. CEO and co-founder Olivier Reynaud explains the vision.

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Headlines

🗞️ VivaTech and the World Economic Forum (WEF) are launching the European Centre for AI Excellence (CAIE) in Paris to position Europe as a leader in AI innovation. The center will join the WEF’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) Network, leveraging France’s research ecosystem, strong investment landscape, and dynamic startup scene. It aims to address key AI challenges by fostering cross-border research, promoting responsible AI adoption, and supporting economic growth across Europe. Backed by the WEF’s AI Governance Alliance, CAIE will drive collaboration between businesses, policymakers, and researchers to develop inclusive and sustainable AI solutions. The initiative aligns with the AI Action Summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron, reinforcing Europe’s vision of balancing AI innovation with individual rights. | WEF

🗞️ OpenAI has announced that its AI video generation tool, Sora, is now available in Europe and the UK after previously being restricted due to regulatory concerns. Sora can create high-definition videos up to 20 seconds long from text prompts but is only accessible to paid ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers. OpenAI has implemented safeguards, including metadata verification and watermarks, and temporarily restricted generating videos featuring real people to combat deepfakes. Despite its capabilities, Sora faces technical challenges, such as realism issues and difficulties with complex sequences, while competing tools from Google and Meta have yet to generate similar levels of anticipation. | Maddyness

Other headlines

🗞️ French Alps ski resort uses AI piste to teach beginners | The indoor device ‘places’ people onto the resort's slopes on a screen and they learn twice as fast as on usual beginner slopes, claims instructor. | The Connexion

🗞️ French call center firm uses AI to modify accents | France-based Teleperformance SE has implemented an AI system to modify the accents of English-speaking Indian call center agents in real-time. | TechInAsia

🗞️ AI Action Summit in Paris Highlights A Shifting Policy Landscape | "The French AI Action Summit heralded a major shift in AI governance away from AI risk and safety to AI opportunity and national self-interest." | Stanford HAI

🗣️ Aive: Revolutionizing Video Production with AI

In a world where video content dominates the digital landscape—from social media feeds to streaming platforms—the challenge of efficiently producing high-quality videos at scale has become increasingly pressing.

Enter Aive, a French startup that's using artificial intelligence to transform how brands and media companies handle video post-production.

Aive's core innovation lies in its proprietary MGT (Multimodal Generative Technology) system, which takes a fundamentally different approach to video processing. Rather than simply generating video content like many generative AI tools, Aive transforms existing videos into structured data that can be analyzed, modified, and optimized.

"We are the only company to have this approach globally," said Olivier Reynaud, CEO and co-founder of Aive. "We are the only company to have this data."

Events

📆 AWS Startup Day | Early Stage Edition 2025 | March 4 | Join the AWS Startups team at the AWS Startup Day and Early Stage Edition 2025, the annual conference dedicated to early-stage startups. | Register

📆 Builders Weekend | March 15 | What is Builders Weekend? It’s the grand finale of the AI Startup School—a four-week program where we bring together top European CEOs and CTOs, with 40 sharp, ambitious builders. No panels, no BS—just real conversations about the hard parts of starting a company and the hacks that they've found to make it work. The Builders weekend is only for participants of the AI Startup School. | Learn more and apply here.

📆 AgentX | April 7 | AgentX is pioneering the first fully agent summit, designed to showcase the transformative power of AI and Decentralization. Co-created by two of the leading events in their domains, Paris Blockchain Week and RAISE, this revolutionary event will bring together the brightest minds, cutting-edge projects, and global visionaries to tackle the most pressing moments of the ongoing AI revolution: Agents and Decentralization. | Tickets

📆 AWS Summit Paris | April 9 |AWS Summit Paris 2025 is a free one-day event focused on generative AI, data, security, sustainability, and more. Customize your experience with a keynote featuring leading speakers, over 150 interactive sessions and workshops, one-on-one consultations with our experts, an exhibition area showcasing the latest cloud innovations, as well as numerous networking and training opportunities. | Register

📆 Data & AI Summit | April 10 | The Data & AI Summit 2025 will bring together IT decision-makers and AI experts to explore the opportunities and challenges associated with data and artificial intelligence. This event will highlight the impact of generative AI on business models, as well as best practices for maximizing the value of data within modern organizations. | Register

📆 MKIA 25 | April 29 | The Maddy Keynote, organized by Maddyness, announces its special edition: the MKIA, the event that transforms the broad guidelines on AI into concrete initiatives for the economic leaders of tomorrow. Far from abstract tech-symbol discourse, MKIA deciphers AI in a concrete and educational way through round tables, keynotes, case studies, and a zone for startups. It enables all actors – start-ups, corporations, investors, and institutions – to take ownership of the challenges, opportunities, and challenges of its adoption. | Register

📆 The Paris AI Conference 2025 | June 16 | The Paris AI Conference 2025 gathers 250 of France's AI Experts, Founders, Investors, and Enthusiasts, for an evening of content and networking. This event is hosted by Startup Network Europe. | Register

📆 Stripe Tour Paris | June 17 | Join us for Stripe Tour, our global roadshow that brings together business leaders in major cities to discuss the most important trends in payments and financial technology. | Register

📆 RAISE Summit 2025 | July 8-9, 2025 | RAISE Summit is the premier event for professionals seeking to disrupt, build, and connect in the AI landscape. This summit is the ultimate destination to validate AI strategies through real-world use cases, define a winning AI playbook, and find the right partners to deliver cutting-edge solutions. | Register

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