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.
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…
Databricks has raised a 250 million dollar Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, and, most tellingly, Microsoft. The dollar figure is big,…
The two fiercest rivals in the Hadoop world, Cloudera and Hortonworks, have announced they are merging. For anyone who followed the big-data scene in…
Tempus Labs became Chicago's standout unicorn in 2018, opening a historic run. How Eric Lefkofsky's precision-medicine company built on the Groupon and Grubhub era.
Databricks grew from a seven-person startup into a serious cloud company, and its 140 million Series D, led by Andreessen Horowitz, reflects that. The…
The same year the Hadoop old guard is merging in retreat, Snowflake is doing the opposite: raising a 450 million dollar round that values…
The Villani Report on AI in 2018 provides a strategic framework that guides French public investment and policy in artificial intelligence.
Following the Villani Report, France significantly increases public funding for AI research, infrastructure, and talent development between 2018 and 2022.
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