Everything I write about artificial intelligence lands here. Less of the demo-day theater, more of what sits underneath it: the compute, the real economics, and the distance between what gets announced and what actually ships.
A new kind of AI milestone has arrived, quietly but with enormous consequences. A model called Stable Diffusion has been released, and unlike the…
2022 is the year the music stops. After more than a decade of cheap money, soaring valuations, and seemingly unlimited growth, the technology industry…
Between 2019 and 2021, MediaTek transformed from a budget chip supplier to the largest smartphone chip vendor by volume with its Dimensity 5G line.…
France sees several AI companies reach unicorn status or attract very large funding rounds between 2022 and 2026 as investor interest in the sector…
France applies physical AI and robotics to energy transition challenges, including grid management, industrial efficiency, and sustainable manufacturing.
Databricks has raised 1.6 billion dollars in a single funding round, led by Counterpoint Global, the Morgan Stanley fund, at a valuation of 38…
After its record-breaking 2020 IPO, Snowflake faces a new kind of challenge. It is now a public company worth tens of billions of dollars,…
As machine learning moves from research labs into real businesses, companies are running headlong into an awkward truth: building a machine-learning model in a…
On September 16, 2020, Snowflake goes public, and it does so in spectacular fashion. The stock was priced at 120 dollars per share ahead…
This is the year Databricks crosses from promising growth company into one of the most valuable private tech firms in the world, reaching a…
While Snowflake marches toward its record IPO, OpenAI has released a language model called GPT-3, and it is changing the conversation about artificial intelligence…
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerates AI adoption across French companies and public services as organizations seek efficiency and remote capabilities.
Snowflake has raised 479 million dollars at a valuation of 12.4 billion dollars, in what looks likely to be its final private funding round…
French AI companies increasingly expand internationally between 2020 and 2026, opening offices, acquiring talent, and serving global customers while maintaining strong domestic roots.
A research lab called OpenAI has announced a language model named GPT-2, and then done something unusual: it says the model is too dangerous…
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