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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where France comes up
Cerebras CEO: Why GPUs Can't Do Fast Inference
- ▶ 12:45 Andrew Feldman Um, if you're in France, you have nuclear, which sort of turns out to be pretty cheap, you know, power and pretty clean.
OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti
- ▶ 11:07 Matt Turck We're recording this in France, which has a bunch of, ah, you know, nuclear power generation. 2 times in the scene
The "Token Heist" Wiping Out AI Startups | Emily Sands (Stripe)
- ▶ 29:45 Matt Turck And it's software, so it's fully programmable, so just to double click on some of what you just said, you can restrict certain categories of merchants, or you can only buy from Amazon, uh, or you can only buy in the U.S. or in France.
- ▶ 1:05:13 Emily Glassberg Sands They're up, um, like, 40% in the Netherlands and 70% in Finland and 80% in France.
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
- ▶ 1:17:23 Matt Turck In reality, it meant a specific program to attract like a few academics to, to, to, to France. 6 times in the scene
Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI
- ▶ 8:20 Timothée LeCroix I know it's, uh, an issue in, in France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:58 Matt Turck So you guys do quite a bit of defense work, as I understand it, with France, with, with Germany.
- ▶ 54:18 Matt Turck I mean, you're the very much the, the pride of France, the pride of, uh, Europe as well.
Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
- ▶ 29:16 Dylan Patel Like Japanese people are so precise, like with sushi and like, it's all about the trade and the craft and like, you know, the French food in Japan is better than the French food in France
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
- ▶ 39:22 Matt Turck You know, like, like many other people, my, my, my test for, uh, when things spread outside of the immediate, uh, tech circle is, is my family, and they, you know, uh, back in France, and they're very tech savvy in general, so they're not…
Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
- ▶ 0:12 Matt Turck We chatted about Dataiku's remarkable rise from humble origins in France a decade ago to being today a global enterprise AI leader.
- ▶ 3:20 Florian Douetteau Then, as a kid, or as a teenager, got into functional programming, because it was a thing in France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:40 Florian Douetteau Uh, when I was like, 1718, 19, and when I was 20, I was at this, uh, school with lots of, uh, math geeks, as in, like, the, in France, where... 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:27 Matt Turck You know, I, I guess most people, uh, don't know the things, including in France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:02 Matt Turck You know, especially back then, I mean, now France progressed leaps and bounds in terms of 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:18 Matt Turck So the relative isolation of being, uh, in France helped do something that was non-traditional in terms of, like, approach to building a company, is that? 2 times in the scene
State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics, Robotics | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
- ▶ 36:39 Nathan Benaich I mean, Michael has had this narrative for a while, but, and like France was one of the bigger, um, kind of defenders of open source, et cetera, but I don't think it's going to change much.
Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
- ▶ 6:12 Matt Turck So, you know, growing up in France is something that was not completely unusual. 2 times in the scene
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 51:33 Erik Bernhardsson I think, you know, I think Datadog is a bunch of people in France, for instance. 2 times in the scene
The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
- ▶ 1:15 Clement Delangue I grew up in France, as you can hear from my accent.
- ▶ 16:56 Clement Delangue Uh, France also has promoted open source, uh, much more than, than the U.S.
- ▶ 57:54 Matt Turck So for reference, it's a part of a, the kind of, of a sort of a cartoon strip that, um, any, any kid in France of a, I guess, a certain age would, uh, would have grown up with.
AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
- ▶ 56:51 Richard Socher Who's the president, uh, of France?
AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
- ▶ 0:13 Matt Turck The result of an unlikely journey as it was founded by two French immigrants in 2010 in New York City at a time when starting an enterprise software company in New York was still very much considered a strange idea destined to fail.
- ▶ 2:36 Olivier Pomel There was not much going on in France from a tech perspective. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:17 Olivier Pomel So we actually bought a company in France, um, small company, um, that had an early product for that, and we accelerated that development.
Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
- ▶ 20:50 Sharon Zhou Uh, it doesn't know really how to answer questions, so if you ask it, what's the capital of France? 2 times in the scene
From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
- ▶ 38:55 unnamed speaker Uh, I'm originally from France.
2024 will be the year of ENTERPRISE AI | Florian Douetteau, CEO of Dataiku
- ▶ 9:35 Florian Douetteau But, like, if you plan to run it for, like, one or two years, it's very probable that you'll switch from OpenAI today to, uh, Anthropik tomorrow, and maybe Mistral, they're French.
How Intercom transitioned to being AI-first | Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom
- ▶ 1:00:59 Des Traynor And then there are other, like just in a totally different, um, sort of corner, like there are folks like the team at AMO in France who are building, like, I think a really interesting alternative take on the future of social networking.
Bootstrapping a Decacorn on $15k with Celonis CEO Alex Rinke
- ▶ 14:14 Matt Turck And did you guys do Germany first, then Germany, France, UK, and expanded from, from there, or was it more global from the beginning? 4 times in the scene
The Race to Build the Ultimate AI Programmer | Poolside CTO Eiso Kant
- ▶ 38:04 Matt Turck And speaking of engineers and switching texts a little bit, uh, one of the things that caught people's attention in the base of both sides, in addition to all of the above is that, uh, you guys decided to build the company largely out of,…
Diffblue’s AI Testing Paradigm Shift — CEO Mathew Lodge Explains How Code Writes Itself
- ▶ 42:22 Mathew Lodge We had, you know, we had a Brexit exodus of talent where people just said, you know what, I'm just going, I'm going back to France or I'm going back to, you know, wherever.
Secure, Private, Powerful: Dust’s Vision for Enterprise AI Agents | Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 0:42 Matt Turck But I think it'd be really interesting to talk about what's going on in Europe in general and France, in particular in the world of AI.
- ▶ 1:29 Stanislas Polu Uh, we met, uh, probably more like 15 years ago, uh, studied in France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:45 Matt Turck So, uh, maybe, maybe to close, I was hoping, uh, to spend a few minutes as we said at the beginning, uh, chatting about, uh, AI in France and, and, and Europe.
The Single Platform for Everyday AI - Fireside Chat with Florian Douetteau (Dataiku) & Matt Turck
- ▶ 8:28 Florian Douetteau We are French at the beginning.
LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
- ▶ 1:15 Amr Awadallah You might have another department in France doing it in French and China doing it in Chinese and, and, and, uh, in Japan doing it in Japanese.
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 23:05 Dimitri Sirota So the ones that had the problem most acutely and had the biggest penalty, like, um, you know, the regulators in the UK or France, like Canil, they're not going after Joe's auto body.
Leveraging People Data at Scale | ADP Chief Data Officer, Jack Berkowitz
- ▶ 20:46 Jack Berkowitz We have to, in France, we're also, we pay something like 20 or 30% of the French population.
Fireside Chat: Florian Douetteau (Founder & CEO, Dataiku) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 2:31 Florian Douetteau And we started as a small team in France back a few years ago, and yeah, we kept probably kind of a low profile, getting then and moving to the US, to New York, as a first step.
Fireside Chat Part II: Ben Horowitz (a16z) on Culture with Matt Turck (FirstMark) at Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 18:08 Ben Horowitz Um, if that's part of your culture, like, I don't care if you're in France, you have to still do that.
Fireside Chat: Sarah Guo, General Partner at Greylock (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 2:08 Matt Turck I mean, you, you basically, that investment that you talk about, uh, between France and San Francisco, that's this company's screen. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 4:27 unnamed speaker George Washington Bridge, France's biggest naval ship, American soldier, greeting his mom, Christmas at Penn Station.
Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 0:15 Matt Turck So, Talend is, uh, actually to the point where we're just talking about a, a originally French but now very American company that started in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in,…
Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 1:20 Louis DiModugno Um, the way that we have been looking at this is that our parent company in France 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Louis DiModugno Uh, so one of the things that we've been doing, uh, in, in France and, uh, in Europe specifically is that they've been looking at, uh, auto, uh, claim fraud and specifically looking at it from a
- ▶ 10:30 Louis DiModugno So we've got one in, uh, the, uh, France, uh, in, in the Paris location. 2 times in the scene
Yann Lecun, Facebook // Artificial Intelligence // Data Driven #32 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 1:35 Matt Turck So we were going to talk about this, um, in, in, in some lengths, but, you know, I'd love to start with your, with your journey, um, so starting in, uh, in, in, in France and Bell Labs and all those things.
- ▶ 1:58 Yann LeCun I grew up in France, um, I, uh, did all my schooling studies in France, uh, I'm an engineer, I'm an electrical engineer, actually, uh, not a computer scientist. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:10 Yann LeCun Paris and a vector for France, and you also have a vector for United Kingdom, and if you do Paris minus France plus United Kingdom, you get London. 2 times in the scene
Panel Discussion // Data Driven #16 // May 2013
- ▶ 0:05 Matt Turck I'm French.