Champion of France’s AI
Mistral AI is a French politician, the French president Emmanuel Macron saluting his free request for his chatbot Le Chat last week with an enthusiastic article, declaring “Long live the cat!”
The French government has also intensified its support for the flagship startup with a series of contracts. Over the past two weeks, he has announced public -private partnerships with Mistral AI – one with the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the other with the France Work Public Employment Agency.
At the same time, Macron called on the private sector to buy Europeans. “When you have two technological solutions, an European and an American, you must choose the European,” he explained during a videoconferencing with around twenty European business leaders last week, Politico learned D ‘A source close to the exchange.
This message has passed. Just before the IA summit, the French groups Veolia and Iliad both announced a partnership with the Mistral AI.
“There is an increasing awareness of the public side. They realize that administrations must work in partnership with the European industrial fabric to accelerate, in the same way as the United States,” said Mensch. “In the private sector too, there is a growing awareness that we need to organize ours (…) to be part of the world economy.”
For Mensch, the AI summit of this week comes to “a geopolitical moment with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra amended the event.
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