Organizations shaping AI

Media-monitoring and social-listening SaaS company, founded in 2012 in Paris.

French graduate engineering school (Mines Paris – PSL), part of Paris Sciences et Lettres University, founded in 1783.

French computer-vision startup, founded in 2008, acquired by Google in 2014.

French telecommunications company with AI and digital-services work.

Former public university in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, France (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III), merged in 2012 into Aix-Marseille University.

French automotive manufacturer, founded in 1810 and producing automobiles since 1896; part of the Stellantis group.

Enterprise business-planning platform that brings financial, workforce, and operational planning into a shared modeling environment. Its AI features support reporting, scenario analysis, and agent-assisted planning workflows.

French intellectual-property law firm specialising in patents and trademarks.

Paris-based AI company, founded in 2017 by Gilles Moyse and Frédéric Allary, building natural-language "Document Intelligence" tools to extract data from unstructured documents.

French voice-assistant and AI startup, founded in 2013, acquired by Sonos in 2019.

French media-services and visual-effects company with roots in early colour film; formerly Thomson.

Engineering school in Barcelona, Spain (Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Telecomunicació de Barcelona), part of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Former public university in Nancy, France (Université de Nancy), now part of the University of Lorraine.

Zenly developed a live location-sharing social map that let friends see one another's positions, activity and nearby places. Snap acquired the Paris company in 2017 and discontinued the app in 2023.

ZML

AI infrastructure company building a production inference stack that runs models across multiple hardware targets from a single codebase.

Adaptive ML

Adaptive ML is a Paris-based AI company that builds infrastructure for reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and preference optimization to fine-tune large language models.

Alta Ares

Develops autonomous defense systems for air defense and battlefield intelligence, combining counter-drone interceptors with edge-based visual detection, tracking, sensor fusion and mission-management software.

French robotics company, founded in 2022 by Jérôme Monceaux (co-founder of Aldebaran Robotics), maker of the Mirokai character robot.