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CEO Arthur Mensch: "Our goal is to be a global market leader." France's Great LLM Hope announced a flood of business deals in the face of mounting skepticism that it can compete against rivals such as OpenAI and DeepSeek.
CEO Cécile Villette: “We’re helping the industry become future-proof.”
The two-day summit saw lots of biz announcements, but no consensus on an AI statement. The mood was decidedly more buoyant at the Business Day gathering at Station F.
Can a €109bn investment package turbo-charge France's AI ambitions? Can AI diplomats learn to sing from the same gospel hymn?
Macron: "This summit is not just the announcement of investments in France. It's a wake-up call for our European strategy."
"We need to stop thinking about the decisions made about AI as something that technology company leaders do. We have to take back the control of those decisions."
"Sustainability and performance are not in conflict. You need to do both."
"We must manage artificial intelligence; we must not let it manage us."
"We cannot take this progress forward when we are not including diverse voices. Democracies around the world have different shapes and forms."
"If we kill creativity and creators, we kill the human soul. Culture is what tells us where we come from, what unites us."
"It's not the AI that is going to take our jobs, it's the lack of preparedness for us to take up new jobs in an AI context that is more at risk."
Inside: France is securing massive AI investments, with President Macron announcing €109B in funding. Bpifrance will invest €10B in AI startups. And Mistral AI punched back with its new Le Chat model.
Inside: France Digitale CEO Maya Noël wants to help the Summit get down to business; FD's AI startup mapping makes the case for France as an AI player; meanwhile the DeepSeek freakout continues.
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On the eve of the AI Action Summit, France is staking its claim to be a leader in this critical sector. The report highlights the vast potential -- and the big challenges.
On the Summit's Business Day: "The idea is to make people understand the use and not just talking about what are the models, what is the value chain, but very concrete stuff to inspire a lot of companies to use more AI in their business."
