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A few days ago President Emmanuel Macron revealed his ambitious plan as 109 billion euros in investments To position France as a European leader of AI at the Summit for Action on AI. This program includes the construction of gigafactories dedicated to calculation powerintended to support the training of artificial intelligence models.
A memorandum of understanding was signed between the government and Fluidstackan unknown British startup, CO founded by César Maklary, for a supercomputer project in France in an amount of 10 billion euros, from 2026. This initiative, in perfect adequacy with French ambitions, nevertheless questions the extent of the project and the real capacities of the company to carry out such an infrastructure.
The Fluidstack model is based on the GPU clusters rentalan approach similar to that of Coreweave Or Nebius Group. The startup claims prestigious customers, such as Mistral Ai, Poolside and even Metaand offers access to several models of NVIDIA graphic flea. She would have ordered servers integrating the new fleas Blackwell GB200 manufacturer.
That being, Fluidstack remains a startup in the priming phase. Funded by Cacti Ventures, a microphone that has only 6 investments in its portfolio, Fluidstack would only have lifted $ 4.5 million to date. A sum that may seem derisory with regard to the investments necessary to make a supercomputer from a capacity gigawatt. The startup is currently in discussions to raise Between $ 100 and 200 million in Series Aan amount which, although significant, also remains much lower than the requirements of such a project. As a comparison, Coreweaveestablished actor of cloud computing for AI, has already raised more $ 3 billion for its infrastructure, far from 4.5 million harvested by Fluidstack.
