Europe bets €70B on tech sovereignty, France’s cloud and AI firms gear up for scale, and autonomous agents take center stage at VivaTech. Meanwhile, nuclear energy makes an AI-powered comeback, ChatGPT flunks the Bac (again), and regulators race to protect kids from rogue AI bots.
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.
Cathay Innovation launches a €1B AI fund; Macron inks a France–Singapore AI pact; Capgemini, Mistral & SAP join forces on GenAI for regulated sectors; Hugging Face unveils humanoid robots; and Mistral rolls out powerful new tools for code and agents.
Didask thinks so. Plus: France bags €17B in new foreign AI investments led by NVIDIA, Cisco, and Brookfield. PhotoRoom makes its first acquisition, Qubit & Sorbonne unveil a game-changing chemistry AI, and new funding floods into startups, including Veesion and Didask.
Dailymotion buys Mojo, a French AI-powered video creation app. Greenbids joins Perion Network for sustainable advertising. AI tracks surge on Deezer, while Atos unveils a €500M AI plan. Jean Zay supercomputer gets a power boost, and Le Monde partners with Perplexity AI.
Also: Meet Gigi, an AI matchmaker that scrapes your digital footprint to recommend connections for business, networking, and dating -- whether you asked it to or not. The Black Mirror-esque platform, already backed by Sequoia, OpenAI, and Monashees.
Also: With a fresh €36.36 million late-stage funding round and a bold new AI chip ready for market, VSORA is emerging as a flagship of Europe’s deep tech ecosystem, poised to challenge industry giants in performance and efficiency.
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.
Also inside: How Delos is building an AI operating system for business; France can haz all your scientists.
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.
Nvidia tells Britain to be more like France, Mistral Bags €100M Deal
Pigment launches AI agents; Aldebaran Robotics folds; Eurazeo bets on infrastructure.
Mistral says no no no IPO; Meta AI invades Europe; Frenchies take a stand against data centers.
Spore.bio wages germ-testing warfare; Wandercraft wins a prize for its AI exoskeleton; French publishers tell Meta where to stick its algorithms.
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.
Inside: A look at the future of AI and Video with Aive; Paris gets a fancy new AI center.
