Organizations shaping AI

École Polytechnique

École Polytechnique combines mathematical foundations with AI and data-science research through LIX, CMAP, and Hi! PARIS, spanning trustworthy AI and applications across science and engineering.

Mistral AI

Mistral develops frontier models, developer tools, applications, and customizable AI systems for enterprises and governments. Its products include open-weight and proprietary models, the Studio platform, and Vibe, its unified agent for work and code.

AMI Labs

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs is Yann LeCun's AI startup focused on world models and alternatives to token-prediction-centric language models.

ENS Paris

ENS Paris has been an important source of France’s mathematical approach to AI, with influential work in statistical learning, optimization and computer vision. Its interdisciplinary normalesup.ai lab connects foundational methods with climate, health and social research.

French grande école (formerly ENS Cachan) known for research in mathematics, computer science, and machine learning.

CentraleSupélec

Leading French engineering school within the Paris-Saclay university cluster.

Pierre and Marie Curie University, also known as Paris VI or UPMC, was a Paris research university focused on science, engineering and medicine. Its mathematics and computer-science laboratories included major work in machine learning, robotics and optimization.

Inria

France's national digital-science research institute and a central operator of the country's AI strategy. Its work spans foundational research, trustworthy and sovereign systems, public-sector tools, regulation, and technology transfer.

Former Paris-Sud University (Orsay), now part of Université Paris-Saclay; strong in mathematics and physics.

Kyutai

Paris-based open AI research lab focused on open science, known for the Moshi real-time speech model.

Major research university in Paris, formed from the merger of Paris-Sorbonne and UPMC, with strong science and humanities research.

UMA

UMA develops vertically integrated, general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots for dexterous work in real-world settings. Its founding team draws on Tesla Optimus, Google robotics and Hugging Face's open-source LeRobot platform.

French engineering institute (Grenoble INP) specializing in technology and applied sciences.

H Company

Paris-based startup founded in 2024 building AI agents and foundation models, started by former Google DeepMind researchers.

Public research university in Paris, France (Université Paris Dauphine – PSL), specialising in economics, management and the social sciences.

poolside

AI company founded by Jason Warner (former GitHub CTO) and Eiso Kant, building foundation models and a coding assistant for software development. Headquartered in Paris.

French grande école specializing in telecommunications and computer science, part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

French graduate engineering school near Paris specialising in telecommunications and information technology, part of Institut Mines-Télécom.

CNRS is the backbone of much of France’s public research system, jointly operating laboratories across computer science, mathematics and the sciences. Its AISSAI center coordinates work both on new AI methods and on using AI for scientific discovery, linking otherwise separate research communities.

Paris grande école and university whose teaching and research span the sciences and humanities.

French engineering grande école, the École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique, specialising in statistics, economics and data science, part of Polytechnic Institute of Paris.

French graduate engineering school specializing in electronics and computer science.

Owkin

"Building the one AI Scientist, purpose-built for biomedical breakthroughs."

Paris-Saclay University

Paris-Saclay concentrates a large share of France’s mathematics, computer science and engineering research. Its DataIA institute links more than 800 researchers across 47 laboratories, joining foundational AI with work in health, science, industry, ethics and public policy.