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From the Olympia stage to Station F, Xavier Niel perfects the art of the one-man show. Just a week ago, the billionaire was on the stage of the Paris start-up campus, for the opening of the second summit on AI (ai-Pulse) of his cloud subsidiary Scaleway. Invited to launch the debates, in hesitant English but obligatory given the cosmopolitan audience present in the room, the founder of Free was cut off during his speech by a slightly teasing vocal AI: « I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you’re saying, I only speak english ! » (« I don't understand what you are saying, I only speak English ! »)
Enjoying the laughter in the room, Xavier Niel jumped at the opportunity to present this AI, Moshi, publicly presented last July by the teams at Kyutai, his AI laboratory. Just a year ago, during the first ai-Pulse summit, Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saadé (CEO of CMA CGM) and Eric Schmidt…
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