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Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 14, 2026Published at 2:06 AM EDT · New York
NVIDIA announces new investments in French AI startups a week before its Berlin conference
France's AI build-out, including Mistral's planned 1.4-gigawatt campus near Paris, depends heavily on NVIDIA hardware, which limits how far Paris's sovereignty agenda reaches.
NVIDIA announced new investments in French startups and said companies in France are deploying agentic computing in space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research. NVIDIA says the country has moved "from ambition to ap…
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