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Bpifrance is France's state-owned public investment bank, financing and investing in domestic firms from startups to major industry, including defence tech.
A 50-person Paris company with more than 30 clients has convinced Bpifrance's defence fund and Xavier Niel that the way to compete with American compute is to change the mathematics rather than match the budget.
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