The president of france Emmanuel Macron he has played the card of his trump card, a package of investments in private of 109 billion euros in IT. The announcement comes on the eve of the Summit, the scope of Artificial Intelligence at the Paris conference the third international on HIM, after those at Bletchley Park in the Uk, and Seoul in South Korea.
A number of which in relation to the population, it is equal to the investment made by the member States of the United states, with a project Stargate one of the 500 billion dollars.
In france, they challenge US to HIM: 109 billion euros, in order to compete with the Stargate
TechCrunch did it counts: between 30-50 billion usd from the United Arab Emirates and (MGX), to 20 billion usd by the company in canadian investments in Brookfield, a 10 billion usd by Bpifrance and the 3 billion usd of telecommunications on the Iliad, the total is now 83 billion (85 billion). And there are no in the list of the accounted giants, as the Orange and Thales, as mentioned by Macron as well as other investors in the program.
The largest part of the investment will go to the new centers of data for artificial intelligence. Therefore, comparing the project to the u.s. Stargate. Macron also put it at the center of attention for start-and the French of IT as the Mistral, Wandercraft and Owkin (the latter, however, has moved its headquarters in the united states). According to the president, the eu is still competitive in the beginning of IT, and DeepSeek is an opportunity to catch up the pace.
The model is “Frugal” is DeepSeek, is a good example to follow
“He had a running with the bulls. Everyone thought that it should be always bigger and stronger. What did DeepSeek with a model R1? “He's got all of the new things available in this model, the most recent of OpenAI, and i made them with a model of his own, by using this approach the most of the savings,” explained Macron. “All of them will continue to do so. And this is the reason why you have to be in this race.”
Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO of Mistral, announced it also plans to invest billions in a pool of IT. The company pariziane it is the only country in Europe which operates in the pattern of IT, to be able to compete with those of the Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Alibaba, and others. “We're going to do our part, and will invest a few billion to a group that will be created, in the Essonne, in order to be able to the we train the systems are even more efficient in a few months”he said , Mensch on the tv on the TF1.
Power is Nuclear power the French; the One, Nor under the sleeve to the center of the data
Reports from the Macron, and the Mensch, can be seen as a reaction to the project-Stargate. But in France, there is an advantage to be an important industry: the vast majority of the energy of it comes from power plants, nuclear power, and the country produces more energy than it consumes. In a mixture of ideal for attracting investments in data centers, with energy-intensive, to be provided by the electricity without carbon.
“In France, we have an opportunity to be incredible. We generate electricity, most of the dekarbonizuar, more controllable, and safe in the world. We have a network of more stable and secure. We eksportojmë of this energy by the emission of a lowsaid Macron. According to the president, in 2024, France eksportoi 90 TWh of electricity to the neighboring countries. And now intends to make use of this, the amount of attracted foreign investments. In other words, France is casting a hand out in front of the United States in the race for artificial intelligence.
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