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French Digital Economy Minister Unveils New Public Funding Initiative to Support Domestic Artificial Intelligence Startups

The French government launched a specialized public-private investment fund designed to inject hundreds of millions of euros into domestic artificial intelligence developers, supercomputing infrastructure, and sovereign cloud computing capabilities based in Paris and regional tech hubs.
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