Louis Soussand

The ML ecosystem in France is on fire🔥 It has amazing talent and resources. Here are 10 facts you might not know: 1. There are great research labs - from @MistralAI and @kyutai_labs to large ones from @AIatMeta and @GoogleDeepMind. The Llama 2 and CodeLlama authors are based in France! 2. Did you know sklearn is maintained by @Inria (a top national research institution). 3. Companies such as @OVHcloud and @Scaleway are European leads in computing and hosting. 4. There is the Jean Zay supercomputer with 28 petaflops, where @BigscienceW Bloom was trained. 5. @huggingface has its largest office there🤗. 6. There is @joinstationf, the world's largest startup campus with 1k+ startups, and 42, a very interesting CS school. 7. It has top CS universities. Maybe they don't have international renown or prestige and they don't invest as much in marketing, but they are really top, and their alumni are really, really strong. 8. A thriving startup ecosystem, @MithrilSecurity @photoroom_app @giskard_ai ChainLit @zama and many others. 9. Unlike SF, it's not in a tech bubble. E.g., the fashion industry is very strong. There are many art collectives. A good example of the power of this is Obvious Art (obvious-art.com/), a collective of researchers and artists working with ML. 10. It's very well located in Europe; quick train ride away from other tech hubs such as London, Barcelona, or Zurich, as well as strong universities (EPFL, ETH, UK unis, etc).