In this episode with Maxime Recoquillé, journalist in the Tech section of L’Express, we wonder what a “French-style” AI capable of competing with the Chinese and American giants could look like.
The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation), Mathias Penguilly (writing), Léa Bertrand (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Credits: Europe 1, RTL, France Inter, Scaleway, France 24, France Culture, BFMTV, BFM Business
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Image credits: The Express
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Charlotte Baris: In the news in recent weeks, there is a name that you have heard a lot: that of Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT artificial intelligence.
In La Loupe, we like to talk to you about new technologies through the personalities who make them. We have already spoken to you at length about Altman, but also about Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, and his Martian projects, or even about Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook and his ambitions.
So today it’s time for a new Tech leader – and this time closer to us – Xavier Niel. The businessman is the 18th richest French person according to the magazine Forbes, and since it disrupted the high-speed Internet access market, it has been doing all the right things. Pressman via newspaper The worldinvestor in world-class start-ups like Sorare or Deezer, owner of several castles… He is also the founder of certain strategic places in French Tech: like the 42 school, which trains the developers of tomorrow, or even the the Station F start-up incubator, in Paris.
Xavier Niel now has a new playing field: artificial intelligence. In this episode of La Loupe, we tell you about the AI dreams of one of France’s most prolific investors.
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