After that, Scaleway SAS developed an omnichannel product called StancerPay.

Meta is broadening its AI Startup Program across Europe, highlighting both the potential for innovation and the growing influence of American tech companies in the region’s artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. The program, run in partnership with AI platform Hugging Face and cloud provider Scaleway, will select five startups to receive mentoring, tools, and computing power. While proponents tout the initiative’s potential to accelerate European AI development, the program also raises questions about data privacy and the long-term independence of the continent’s tech sector. The program, which will run from September 2024 to February 2025, is based at Paris’ STATION F campus and is open to applicants across the European Union. Selected startups will work with Meta’s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab and gain access to open-source AI models like Llama