Alan Goes All-In on AI
Six months after announcing a Series F funding round of €173 million at a €4 billion valuation, the French insurtech is accelerating its embrace of AI to transform its operations and products.
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La Machine tells you what you need to know about an ecosystem that is emerging as a global AI hub. This includes the latest headlines, product launches, company launches, and funding rounds.
🤖 La Machine #27: Hugging Face Embraces Pollen Robotics 🤖
Also inside: How Delos is building an AI operating system for business; France can haz all your scientists.
How Delos Is Building an AI Operating System for Business
CEO Pierre de la Grand'rive: "Our ambition is to offer generative AI that is truly useful to employees."
🤖 La Machine #26: How Ogury Is Navigating The AI AdTech Revolution 🤖
Startups lead the country’s AI adoption, while corporates lag behind; Germany and France remain divided over taxing US Big Tech but united behind the Eurostack initiative to build sovereign EU tech infrastructure; SeqOne acquired Paris-based Life-Soft to expand its genomic medicine platform.
How Ogury Is Navigating The AI AdTech Revolution
CEO Geoffroy Martin: "We are in the middle of two revolutions, one which is purely within ad tech, which is that shift of privacy first and loss of signal on the open internet, which is going to be further accelerated and compounded by the very, very fast rise of AI."
🇫🇷 How Fairmat Wants To Redefine Composite Recycling And Conquer The U.S.
The Nantes-based Deep Tech startup just raised €51.5M in new financing. Founder and CEO Ben Saada explains the company's blueprint for scaling its industrial recycling solution.
🤖 La Machine #25: France’s Nuclear Mojo Powers AI Edge Over The UK 🤖
Nvidia tells Britain to be more like France, Mistral Bags €100M Deal
New French AI Company Radar: March 2025
Exclusively for Paid Subscribers: The latest filings for new AI-related companies in France, plus AI startups selected for incubators and accelerators.
🤖 La Machine #24: Inside FlexAI's Ambitions 🤖
Pigment launches AI agents; Aldebaran Robotics folds; Eurazeo bets on infrastructure.
FlexAI: Pioneering Universal AI Compute Infrastructure
Modern AI workloads were being forced to run on computing architectures designed decades ago. FlexAI wants to create a faster, more flexible system that enables rapid scaling.
🤖 La Machine #23: Silicon Valley's Protectionist AI Pivot Embraces Europe's Playbook 🤖
Mistral says no no no IPO; Meta AI invades Europe; Frenchies take a stand against data centers.
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.”
Stealth AI Founders Of France: March Edition
What lurks behind 6 mysterious "Stealth" LinkedIn profiles? Our paid subscribers will know.
🤖 La Machine #22: French AI Shines Light on Microbes 🤖
Spore.bio wages germ-testing warfare; Wandercraft wins a prize for its AI exoskeleton; French publishers tell Meta where to stick its algorithms.
Spore.Bio's AI Slices Bacteria Testing From Days to Minutes
The startup has raised $31.3 million for its light-based AI technology to disrupt centuries-old testing methods across food, pharma, and cosmetics industries.
French AI Research: February Synthesis
Topics: AI-Generated Meteorological Risks, Bioethical challenges, How AI will impact women at work, and more.