🤖 La Machine #21: AI That Packs A Punch 🤖
Inside: Growl hopes its AI Boxing Bag will be a hit; the French army hops on the AI bandwagon; more AI events than you can shake a stick at.
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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.
Growl's AI Boxing Bag Delivers A Knockout Fitness Experience
A pair of French entrepreneurs in Texas have launched Growl, a connected fitness startup that reimagines the traditional boxing bag as an AI-powered, interactive home coach. As the company moves towards commercialization, CEO and co-founder Léo Desrumaux explains the vision.
Europe Needs AI Infrastructure. Cleyrop Wants To Build It
Artificial intelligence is advancing at an unprecedented pace, reshaping industries, economies, and global power structures. But while AI models and applications are evolving rapidly, the infrastructure that powers them is struggling to keep up, especially in Europe. The reality is stark: Europe is falling behind in AI-ready infrastructure. Unlike the
Digital Diplomats: AI is Making Silicon Valley Startups Leaner and Meaner. Can French Founders Keep Up?
U.S. Startups are reaching $100M ARR with less than 50 employees. French startups risk being squeezed if they don’t adapt.
🤖 La Machine #20: AI Making Videos Pixel Perfect 🤖
Inside: A look at the future of AI and Video with Aive; Paris gets a fancy new AI center.
Aive: Revolutionizing Video Production with AI
CEO Olivier Reynaud: "We created an AI product years before the current AI wave. We are an enterprise-ready solution and not something in the lab."
New French AI Company Radar: February 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 #19: French Energy Grid Gets An AI Glow-Up 🤖
Inside: How Metroscope is optimizing power plants with AI; Mistral AI's Le Chat purrs; and funding news for AI startups Genial, Ochy, Spore, and 73 Strings.
AI Optimizing France’s Nuclear Future: Metroscope Prevents Energy Loss at Scale
CEO Aurélien Schwartz: “We’re at the beginning of a massive industrial transformation. AI is no longer optional—it’s the backbone of a smarter, more resilient energy grid.”
🤖 La Machine #18: Mistral AI Shakes Its Moneymaker 🤖
Inside: The AI Summit for Action is over. But we have one final recap. Plus: Mistral AI says it's open for business. Will it be enough to claim a place on the global stage?
From Code to Commerce: Mistral AI Shows It Means Business at Paris Summit
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.
Building for the Future: How Altaroad is Driving Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
CEO Cécile Villette: “We’re helping the industry become future-proof.”
AI Summit For Action Day 2: US VP Tells Europe Where To Stick Tech Regulations
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.
AI Summit For Action Day 1: Big Investments and a European Wake-up Call
Can a €109bn investment package turbo-charge France's AI ambitions? Can AI diplomats learn to sing from the same gospel hymn?
President Macron: 'We will adopt the Notre Dame strategy' for AI
Macron: "This summit is not just the announcement of investments in France. It's a wake-up call for our European strategy."
AI Summit Day 1: Bending the Arc of AI Towards a Resilient and Open AI Ecosystem
"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."