The fifth mapping of the French AI ecosystem shows strong growth in the number of companies in the sector in 2024, with nearly 600 AI startups and suppliers referenced by the Hub France IA. The Hub France IA presented its mapping of AI in France this morning, at the Paris headquarters of Bouygues. The Hub is an ‘association loi 1901’ founded in 2017 whose mission, as its executive director Caroline Chopinaud explained, is to « accompany the adoption of AI in a responsible, sovereign and ethical manner ». In this capacity, the organization notably helped organize last February’s Summit for Action on Artificial Intelligence, and monitors regulatory and economic issues in…