Silicon Valley is making dreams again
LETTER “THE AWAKENING OF THE MACHINES” N°9 – Update on advances in artificial intelligence, and the debates it arouses. Just like the good old days of the “start-up nation”. Little…

Silicon Valley is making dreams again
LETTER “THE AWAKENING OF THE MACHINES” N°9 – Update on advances in artificial intelligence, and the debates it arouses.
Just like the good old days of the “start-up nation”. Little red rooster pinned to the lapel of the jacket, Emmanuel Macron was warmly applauded last week by a crowd of entrepreneurs and investors at the Viva Tech show in Paris. The President of the Republic spoke on stage with Arthur Mensch, founder of Merlin.AI, whose start-up has completed a record fundraising of 105 million euros to develop a French AI, just one month after its creation. He also received Elon Musk, owner of Twitter and Tesla, who then put on a show, in front of captivated fans.
There is a wind of optimism on tech and artificial intelligence has a lot to do with it. In the United States, engineers and entrepreneurs who fled the San Francisco Bay during the Covid-19 pandemic are returning to Silicon Valley, noted in early June the New York Times . No question of missing the wave of AI. The magazine Bloomberg Business WeekWho…