France, March 2 -- While many artificial intelligence chatbots created by Silicon Valley tech companies, trained on American content, European tech companies are developing their own models, using the continent's culture and languages.
A woman's voice emanates from Michel-Marie Maudet's laptop, sitting on a desk at the headquarters of his software development company Linagora, in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, south of Paris.
"Hello, I am Lucie, a large language model trained on a massive data set of text and code in French and other European languages."
Speaking English with a French accent, she continues: "I am able to understand and respond to questions in a way that is sensitive to the nuances of European culture and language."
This chatbot, ...