Late last year AI guru Yann LeCun, at the time Meta’s chief AI scientist, announced he was leaving the company after over a decade in the US to launch his own startup with a new approach to building AI models — and in a move that sparked heaps of enthusiasm, he decided to do so in Paris.
Are world models Europe’s chance to win in AI?
Europe has lagged big US language model developers, but some believe it has a chance to get ahead with world models
Daphné Leprince-Ringuet and Anne Sraders
8 min read
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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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