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Le Figaro
Raphaël Doan: "Without a French AI champion, we will have to pay billions of euros to the United States every year"
Interview with co-author Raphaël Doan around the note: without a sovereign champion, France will keep paying for American AI.
BFM Business
Between the US and China, "France is best placed": a $700bn plan, Mbappé-level salaries… Meet Opération Prométhée, which wants to make France a global AI giant
A mainstream portrait of the plan: $700bn, 12 GW, "Mbappé-level" pay to attract top researchers, and the argument that France is Europe's best-placed country to make the bet.
L'Opinion
"If France does not invest heavily in AI, then we must stop talking about sovereignty"
Takes up the note's central argument: without massive investment in frontier AI, French sovereignty loses its meaning.
Le Grand Continent
Opération Prométhée: France can win the AI race. What would it cost?
Original publication of the note.
Science & Vie
To rival OpenAI, France would need to spend $700 billion (or 10 years of its military budget), a study estimates
Foregrounds the sheer scale: $700 billion, roughly ten years of France's military budget, to reach OpenAI's level.