France's elite math system keeps feeding top AI talent to US labs, thread argues
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-10
SouveraineTech pushes back on US Treasury Secretary Bessent's dismissive remarks about France, arguing the country's elite math education system (Polytechnique, ENS, Centrale, MVA) has long supplied top talent to American AI labs at premium salaries.\n\nThe thread cites Yann LeCun as the emblematic case: the French researcher developed CNNs at Bell Labs in New Jersey in the late 1980s, an architecture still central to computer vision at Google, Meta and Tesla, before Zuckerberg recruited him in 2013 to found FAIR. Igor Carron shared the thread, saying he's tired of such narratives.
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