Macron: French AI boom could help EU close tech innovation gap with U.S. and China
PARIS, France — Europe is pursuing AI innovation, tech regulation and competition with China in very different ways than the United States, French President Emmanuel Macron said this week, as the continent seeks to become the third major global tech force in what is now a U.S.-China dominated landscape. "It's insane to have a world where the big giants just come from China and the U.S," Macron told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin in an exclusive interview Tuesday in Paris. "We need much more European big players, and I think Mistral AI can be one of them," Macron said of France's leading AI company. Microsoft recently invested 15 million euros ($16.3 million) into Mistral. Macron also praised H, the newly launche
