The monumental actors of artificial intelligence in the world

Paris. After launching ChatGPT At the end of 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) was rapidly deployed around large US companies, to which European and Chinese rivals are being added.

Facing the summit on AI in Paris (February 10-11), these are the main actors:

OpenAI, the pioneer. The American company, a bow figure of the generative AI, became famous when launching ChatGPTthe chatbot (conversational robot).

The tool, which democratized the use of AI, has raised spectacular investments.

Since its creation, Openai has achieved around 20 billion dollars in investments, mainly from the Microsoft giant, its main shareholder.

According to information from Wall Street Journal At the end of January, the start-up It is in conversations to raise additional 40 billion.

Sam Altman, co -founder Deopenai, presides over the company despite a dismissal that lasted a short time.

OpenAI is a registered firm without profit, which is oriented towards a change of governance, to become a profit company.

Anthropic, the American rival, founded in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei, two former Openai members, says her model ClaudeIt has safety barriers strict than its competitors.

Although the company has not been able to attract both capital and Openai, it provokes the interest of important actors in the technological field.

At the end of November, Amazon invested 4 billion dollars carrying the total investment to 8 billion.

The company has raised funds for a total of 12,900 million dollars since its creation, of which more than 3 billion are from Alphabet, the Google parent company.

Google Deepmind, Metaai, the weight of the giants. The arrival of ChatGPT He aroused the appetite of the technology giants, who launched themselves in a race towards innovation with colossal financial means.

In February 2023, Meta opened his model to the researchers Llamabefore making it evolve towards Llama 2 and then Llama 3and promote your conversational tool Metai on group platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads).

An interface that remains inaccessible in Europe, due to a regulatory framework uncertain.

The company’s director, Mark Zuckerberg, announced at the end of January his intention to invest up to 65 billion dollars a year, mainly in AI.

Following the stele of Openai, Google launched in March 2023 Bardits conversational tool open to the public, which in February 2024, after an evolution of its model, was called Gemini.

We do not disclose accurate figures On the total amounts invested in AI, demis -Hassabis indicated in April 2024, at the head of the Google Deepmind subsidiary specialized in artificial intelligence research.

Mistral AI, the French commitment, founded by several researchers (Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix) who passed through the research laboratories of US giants, Mistral made his entry into the AI ​​scene in May 2023.

The team of this start-up then unknown to the general public announces a first collection of funds of 100 million euros, and is immediately positioned as a European alternative to US giants.

Your conversational tool, called The catit was launched in February 2024.

The company reveals at the same time an association with Microsoft, which provides an investment of 15 million euros.

In mid -January, AFP and Mistral announced an agreement that allows the conversational robot of the start-up Use agency’s news to respond to users’ requests.

A few days later, at the Davos Summit, the company indicated that it was considering quoting on the stock market to conserve its independence.

In total, the start-up French has raised more than one billion euros.

The Depseek shock wave. The start-up China presented its conversational robot at the end of January R1marking a spectacular entry in the world -basque scene and causing the fall of stock assessments of several American giants, including the Nvidia chips manufacturer.

The cause? The minimum cost of this new actor.

Deepseek indicated having spent only 5.6 million dollars to develop its model, a figure far from the standard standards.

Sam Altman, from Openai, said impressed but also rejuvenated For this competition.

His company, however, accused Chinese firms, and othersto copy the AI ​​models developed by US companies.

Alibaba, a new giant, the last to reach the career of conversational tools, the Chinese conglomerate of electronic commerce launched Qwen2.5-Max.

Available at the time for developers, the advanced artificial intelligence model would be able to overcome the capacities of existing models, according to the group.