As foretold by the prophecy:
—December 2023 - "France's unicorn start-up Mistral AI embodies its artificial intelligence hopes"
From Observer, April 21:
A new French initiative hopes to convince U.S.-based researchers to relocate.
As the Trump administration cuts federal research funding, European countries are stepping in to lure American scientists. France, for instance, launched a new initiative last week to welcome funding proposals from international researchers. The program, “Choose France for Science,” from the National Research Agency, quickly drew praise from Yann LeCun, Meta (META)’s chief A.I. scientist.
“Attempting to attract scientists from the U.S. to France is [a] smart move by President Macron,” said LeCun in a LinkedIn post on April 19. The French-American computer scientist, who has been at Meta for over a decade, received the Turing Prize in 2018 alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for pioneering work in neural networks. LeCun moved from France to the U.S. in 1988 to conduct machine learning research at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey....
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Related, January 2025:
"Canada, an Early A.I. Hub, Fights to Stay Relevant"
There was a time, 7 - 8 - 9 years ago when all the Americans who said they were moving to Canada after 2016—and didn't, decided the next best thing would be to praise Canada from their homes in Silicon Valley, U.S. of A. This included Canadian superiority in AI/machine learning.
They were half right (in AI's case it was the people, not the place)....
