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French Digital Economy Ministry Announces Comprehensive Venture Capital Fund to Support Domestic Artificial Intelligence Startups

The French government unveiled a new multi-billion-euro public-private financial initiative designed to provide venture capital backing to early-stage artificial intelligence developers and quantum computing laboratories based in Paris, Lyon, and Saclay.
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