Google will inaugurate its new artificial intelligence (AI) research and development center on Thursday in Paris, in the presence of its CEO Sundar Pichai, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire and the Secretary of State for Digital Marina Ferrari .
After an initial establishment in Paris in 2018, Google will bring together in this new
“hub”
more than 300 researchers and engineers contributing to the development of its products, YouTube and the Chrome browser.
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Google is not the only big tech name to invest in artificial intelligence in Paris.
In 2015, Facebook opened its large FAIR laboratory (Facebook artificial intelligence research), under the leadership of French researcher Yann Le Cun, Meta expert and pioneer of
“machine learning”
who founded modern AI.
Its first of its kind outside the United States.
The Japanese Fujitsu, the Korean Samsung and the American IBM have also opened research centers in the French capital.
A budget of 300 million euros
“In a few years, we have managed to create several interdisciplinary research institutes, research chairs, to double the number of graduates in AI and to increase the number of doctoral students by 500
,” welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron in November, on the occasion of the launch of the Kyutai laboratory, led in particular by Xavier Niel (Iliad) and Rodolphe Saadé (CMA-CGM) and also based in Paris.
With a budget of 300 million euros, this
“non-profit”
laboratory is dedicated to open source research, with the ambition, for example, to create its own language model, thanks to a group of researchers who have already worked for major tech players, such as Facebook, Google or Apple.