AI: France ranks 3rd most influential country in the world behind American giants
If Chatgpt Dominates the AI industry, its competitors are extremely numerous. However, few countries manage to stand out from the batch compared to American giants. Except France and Mistral, particularly influential.
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France in the top 10
Chatbots and others artificial intelligences are increasingly present in our daily lives, whether on our smartphones, PCs or on websites accessible to all. If Chatgpt is often the first name that comes to mind when we talk about AI, there are actually many other actors.
A recent infographic by Visual Capitalist presents the most most used generative AI in 2025, and if the leader does not surprise, the continuation reserves some surprises.
Chatgpt remains largely in the lead with 46.6 billion visits, or almost 83 % of the total traffic of the first ten chatbots. Behind him, Deepseek (China) and Gemini (Google) arrive far behind with 2.7 and 1.7 billion visits respectively. But in the midst of this American and Chinese domination, France faces the game with Mistral aia French start-up specializing in open source language models. The company has more than 101 million visits.
AI in Europe
Compared to its competitors, Mistral works on modest equipment while remaining efficient, which reduces the costs of calculation and energy. Founded in 2023 by former researchers from Google Deepmind and Meta, Mistral quickly established itself as the first major European startup in AI. His cat assistant, the cat, quickly seduced the public by reaching the million downloads in just two weeks, encouraged by the support of the president Emmanuel Macron.
On the neighbors side, Europe has several important startups in AI. Among them: Aleph Alpha (Germany) for models of language and multimodal, Stability AI (United Kingdom) specializing in open source, Deepl (Germany) for automatic translation, or Techwolf (Belgium) for HR AI, but still has managed to match Mistral.
