Paris, Feb. 10 -- French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday night that France is set to receive a total investment of 109 billion euros (113 billion U.S. dollars) in artificial intelligence (AI) in the coming years.
Speaking in a televised interview on public television channel France 2, Macron described the investment as the "equivalent for France of what the United States announced with 'Stargate'."
He noted that the fund will come from the United Arab Emirates, major American and Canadian investment funds, as well as French companies.
Addressing concerns over China's DeepSeek, Macron said that France has no plan to ban it at the moment. "I do not think that it's appropriate to ban a technology because of its country of or...