Station F

And to make matters worse, just a couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA actually acquired Hugging Face for $13 billion.

And this is an open source, large language model that was created by three French entrepreneurs who ended up being based in New York instead of staying at Station F in Paris.

And so this The cumulative effects of where Europe stands really make them have to look in the mirror to say, what can we do differently to enter the proverbial chat where they're not even in the room?

In some ways, the great irony here, I mean, this has all sort of happened in the last few days, and who knows how this will evolve, but it does seem like our AI companies, the big tech world of Silicon Valley is suddenly racing toward, in some ways, a European response of regulation, the need for government involvement, and yet the EU is sort of nowhere to be found.

Yes, we are based in Paris.

It's Station F.

Station F, yeah.

I still haven't been there to this place.

I'm really, I'm dying to see it.

It's my first thing before Eiffel Tower.

It's Station F, yeah.

yes and also we have a website www.pointofcpplab.com so you can find us there and you can test the product or ask for a demo

Hugging Face, people tend to look at Hugging Face as a very American company.

It was actually born at, at Station F in France.

You know, it's in New York now as well.

UiPath, which at its time, uh, which came from Ro-Romania at its, uh, at the time of its IPO, was the largest European tech company ever, is now based in the US as well.

It's a solo for now.

And I just joined Station F, which is the biggest incubator in Europe now.

And yes, that's the current situation.

Did you build it yourself? With

You said you joined an incubator in Europe.

What does that mean? Does that mean they'll advising you and eventually fund you? Or what does that include?

I mean, being part of such incubators, especially this one, it's called Station F. It's first the fact of working along with other entrepreneurs.

So that's something that can help keep the motivation and keep the grind.