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Le Point
"We must invest in AI as we once invested in the atom"
Joseph Le Corre interviews co-author Raphaël Doan on AI's "nuclear moment": €620bn over three years, 1.5% of GDP a year, the effort France devoted to the bomb and then to its nuclear fleet. He defends the 2-7-12 GW trajectory, a "Prometheus Act" modelled on the law that rebuilt Notre-Dame in five years, and a majority-private lab in which the State would hold only about 25% of the capital.
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.
Atlantico
France can still close its AI gap, and here is how
Analysis by Jérôme Clech (Polytechnique, Sciences Po) on France's path between the United States and China: the Prometheus Plan features as the massive compute-infrastructure route, alongside Mistral AI's strategic alliances.