France’s New AI Champion Scares Silicon Valley
Last Updated on November 5, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Ignacio de Gregorio
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Just a few months ago, a petit small French company was born. Three weeks later, it had already raised $113 million.
At the time, I recall searching the website, and it was almost plain HTML, a seemingly unimpressive CSS animation, and literally three lines of text.
Yet, the company was valued at a quarter of a billion dollars.
No team, let alone a product.
Still, they raised tons of millions through a diverse set of investors who thought that three Frency ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers were the real deal.
Now, we are starting to see why, thanks to the release of… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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