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One day in September 2021, while riding his bike through Paris as he did every day, Arthur Mensch was struck by a scooter. The accident was serious enough to injure his back. In the months that followed, the at the time nearly 30-year-old, a brilliant artificial intelligence (AI) researcher at Google France, began to consider changing his life. Together with two engineer friends, they came up with the somewhat crazy idea to start their own company and take on the Big Tech giants, the global leaders in the sector, including Microsoft, Meta and Apple.
The accident…
