The nonprofit lab is trying to match its American rivals, developing and sharing open source AI models. After a year of existence, it claims tangible results and is redoubling its ambitions.
From the Olympia stage to Station F, Xavier Niel is perfecting the art of the one-man-show. Just a week ago, the billionaire took to the stage at the Parisian start-up campus to open his cloud subsidiary Scaleway’s second AI summit (ai-Pulse). Invited to launch the proceedings, in a hesitant but obligatory English given the cosmopolitan audience present in the room, the Free founder was cut off during his speech by a slightly teasing voice AI: “ I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you’re saying, I only speak english ! ” (“ I don’t understand what you’re saying, I only speak English ! “)
Enjoying the laughter in the room, Xavier Niel jumped at the chance to present this AI, Moshi, publicly presented by last July by teams from Kyutai, its AI laboratory. Just one year ago, at the first ai-Pulse summit, Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saadé (CEO of CMA CGM) and Eric Schmidt…
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