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What to remember from the intervention of Emmanuel Macron at the opening of the AI action Summit Paris
On the occasion of the artificial Intelligence Action Summit of many voices rise on the subject
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- IA, the epistemic war is declared for Tariq Krim
- “The greatest technological war in the history of journalism is declared” for Laurent Guimier
- For Jean-Marc Jancovici, “AI is the new promise of Eldorado formulated by a part of the world” Tech “”
- “Our democracy is based on technological infrastructure that we do not have”
- Faced with the frenzy of the AI, the Hiatus collective offers a counter-discourse
- Jean Luc Mélenchon castigates the “digital vassalization” of France
Iliad engages 3 billion euros in artificial intelligence
The Iliad group announces an investment of 3 billion euros to strengthen its infrastructure dedicated to AI, develop its calculation capacities and support research. The objective is to support the rise in artificial intelligence needs in Europe.
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Opcore deploys 2.5 billion euros in the datacenters
OPCORE, a subsidiary of Iliad in charge of data centers, will invest 2.5 billion euros to increase its capabilities in IA calculation resources. A partnership with Infravia must allow the deployment of several hundred additional short -term megawatts, with progressive development on several European sites.
Scaleway provides 5,000 GPUS for AI
Scaleway, an Iliad Cloud subsidiary, strengthens its calculation offer with 5,000 latest generation GPUS intended for training and exploitation of AI models. Companies like Mistral AI, H and Photoroom are already using its infrastructure. Scaleway also offers access to open-source models such as Llama (META) or Deepseek in a European cloud environment.
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Kyutai invests in open-source research in AI
Iliad participates in the financing of Kyutai, an AI research laboratory founded in 2023, with an contribution of 100 million euros. Kyutai recently presented Hibiki, a simultaneous translation model that restores the voice and the rhythm of the speaker, trained for the transition from French to English.
Hugging Face reveals “Open Deep Research”, an Open-Source IA agent designed in 24 hours
Researchers of Hugging Face launched “Open Deep Research”an open-source AI agent developed in Only 24 hours. This project aims at Rivaly with the performance of Deep Research of Openaiby offering a transparent alternative and accessible to the community.
Isai Expansion III reaches his hard cap of € 300 million
Isai Expansion III, the fund of Tech Growth / Tech Buyout of Isai, closed its lifting to 300 million eurosgoing beyond his initial objective of 250M €. This third investment vehicle targets Profitable SMEs and ETIs of Tech with a hybrid approach between growth and buyout.
The fund has attracted a wide range of investors, with 60 % of new entrantsespecially fundraising (Eurazeo, Flexstone Partners, Swen Capital Partners), public entities (Bpifrance, European investment fund) and Family Offices. Half of the commitments come from historical investors.
Pierre Martini, Managing Director of Isai Expansion, stresses that this lifting has made it possible to expand the community of entrepreneurs-scriptwriters of Isai, which now counts 500 members. Jean-David Chamboredon, president of Isai, insists on the ambition of the fund Maintain top quartile performance at European level.
Tiktok negotiates a joint venture in the United States to appease Washington
Tiktok’s CEO, Shou Chewallegedly met with the White House officials last week to offer a joint venture with American investorsaccording to the Wall Street Journal. This project would include a management and a board of directors mainly based in the United Stateswith reinforced supervision of data security.
Jd vancevice-president and ex-investor in venture capital, pilots discussions for the Trump administration.
Microsoft offers $ 5,000 per book to train AI
Microsoft offered $ 5,000 per title In HarperCollins to use his books in training his artificial intelligence models. The authors would receive 50 % of this sum. The agreement is part of a context of increasing tensions between creators and AI actors on the remuneration of the content used to feed their training dataets.
Christie’s is organizing her first IA art auction, under the fire of criticism
Christie’s will launch the February 20 His first auction dedicated to works generated by artificial intelligence. An unprecedented initiative on the art market, which arouses tensions. Critics denounce a highlighting of AI tools trained on works by artists without their consentreviving the debate on the rights of creators in the face of generative models. Christie’s did not specify the criteria for selecting the works or the remuneration methods of the artists involved.
Eutelsat and his under pressure against Starlink and debt
Many investors are concerned about the situation of European satellite operators Eutelsat And HISfaced with a Debt rise and increased competition from Starlink. The SpaceX network, which already has more than 6,000 satellites covering About 130 countriescaptures an increasing part of the satellite communications market.
Eutelsat, weakened by the integration of Oneweb, and SES, in search of new growth relays, struggle to compete with the rapid expansion of private constellations.
Klarna aims for an IPO in the United States in April 2025, valuation estimated at $ 15 billion
The Swedish Fintech Klarna prepare her IPO in the United States in April 2025with a valuation of reaching 15 billion dollarsaccording to sources close to the file. The official announcement of his plans could take place in March.
Andundil is preparing a raising of $ 2.5 billion on a valuation of 28 billion
The Defense Company Andundil is in discussions to raise up to $ 2.5 billionwith a target valuation of $ 28 billionaccording to sources close to the file. Founders Fund would take the tour with a commitment to$ 1 billion.
Andundil, specializing in autonomous defense technologies, saw his turnover double in 2024 to reach around $ 1 billion.
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Mantle8 focuses on AI to map natural hydrogen and raises € 3.4 million
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- From Versailles to Fort Alamo: HistoVery raises € 4M to impose the French Touch in increased cultural mediation
- Stockly raises 26 million euros to strengthen its stock pooling network
- Endometriosis, Lyv Healthcare raises 2.6 million euros to impose e-health in the management of chronic female diseases
- Crown lifts 2 million euros to automate purchasing management processes
- Riot lifts $ 30 million to counter cyber attacks doped at AI
- ThePackergers raises 14 million euros to industrialize the logistics of e-commerce from art and vintage
🥐 previous edition of the Good Morning Frenchweb:
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- Summit of AI, first announcements / Apple, victim of the showdown between Trump and Beijing / Gsai: Elon Musk imposes AI on the Federal Administration
- Diversity: Google, Meta and Amazon backtrack / Datenture acquires The Ramp / Tesla maneuver behind the scenes in Geneva
- Military ia: Google renounces its principles / Deel on the way to an IPO? / Bouygues accelerates with AWS
- The Elon Musk effect is in full swing / shein targeted by a CE / Outbrain investigation, now call me a tank!
- France inaugurates INESIA, its IA / DOGE security center, the silent intrusion of Musk / Openai engineers launches Deep Research
- But where did the report of the AI commission go? / AI2 defies Deepseek and Openai with tulu 3 405b / Mistral AI accelerates the cadence
🚀 To read on Frenchweb.fr:
Bpifrance hires 10 billion euros over 4 years to structure the French IA ecosystem
- Emblem closes a fund of 80 million euros to finance the startups in Pre Seed and Seed.
- Towards an IPO? Deel strengthens its governance and reaches $ 800 million in Run Rate.
- Google Cloud: Artificial intelligence is not enough to dethrone AWS and Microsoft Azure
- AI for military use: Google renounces its principles
- Wandercraft initiates a clinical trial for its self-balanced personal exoskeleton
- Outbrain, now call me waters!
