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Top AI companies in France

Companies building AI products, foundation models, and applied ML platforms. Filtered to companies headquartered in France.

Built from a search like: “Top AI companies in France”

Ranked by current headcount across AI companies headquartered in France. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    CNRS· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 22.6k employees
    • Founded 1939
  2. 2
    CEA· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 18.9k employees
    • Founded 2003
  3. 3
    aucune/none· France
    • 17.1k employees
    • Founded 1992
  4. 4
    bioMérieux
    • 12.9k employees
    • Founded 1963
  5. 5
    INSERM· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • Grant
    • 7.7k employees
    • Founded 1964
  6. 6
    Pasteur Network· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 7.5k employees
  7. 7
    Ecole normale supérieure· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 6k employees
  8. 8
    INRAE· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 5.9k employees
    • Founded 2020
  9. 9
    Institut Pasteur· Labretonie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
    • 4.6k employees
  10. 10
    École Polytechnique· Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France
    • 4.2k employees
  11. 11
    Université de Rennes I· Rennes, Brittany, France
    • 3.9k employees
    • Founded 2022
  12. 12
    Inria· France
    • 3.7k employees
    • Founded 1967
  13. 13
    SEE· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 3.4k employees
    • Founded 1968
  14. 14
    IFP Energies nouvelles· Rueil-Malmaison, Île-de-France, France
    • 3.3k employees
    • Founded 1944
  15. 15
    IRD· France
    • 2.8k employees
    • Founded 1944
  16. 16
    Paris-Pantheon-Assas University· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 2.5k employees
  17. 17
    CIRAD· Plagne, Occitanie, France
    • 2.4k employees
    • Founded 1984
  18. 18
    Université d'Angers· France
    • 2.3k employees
    • Founded 1971
  19. 19
    UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines· Le Causé, Occitanie, France
    • 2.1k employees
    • Founded 1991
  20. 20
    Cabinet Vétérinaire· St.-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France, France
    • 2k employees
  21. 21
    Ifremer· France
    • 1.6k employees
    • Founded 1984
  22. 22
    ITER Organization· France
    • 1.6k employees
    • Founded 2006
  23. 23
    Inrap· France
    • 1.4k employees
    • Founded 2002
  24. 24
    Université Paris-Sorbonne· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 1.3k employees
    • Founded 1971
  25. 25
    École normale supérieure de Lyon· France
    • 1.2k employees

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France has long been a hub for AI, and the list above ranks the largest AI companies headquartered there by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 1,936 matching companies in our index, this is a good map of where the AI talent in Francelives — useful whether you’re recruiting, partnering, or sizing a market.

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Refolk pulled AI companies headquartered in France from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 10 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

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