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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.

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

  1. 1
    CNRS· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 23.1k employees
    • Founded 1939
  2. 2
    CEA· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • 19.4k employees
    • Founded 2003
  3. 3
    aucune/none· France
    • 18k employees
    • Founded 1992
  4. 4
    bioMérieux
    • 13.1k employees
    • Founded 1963
  5. 5
    INSERM· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • Grant
    • 7.8k employees
    • Founded 1964
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Find engineers at AI companies in France

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 1,975 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.

The biggest AI companies in France tend to be the gravitational centres for specialised talent - senior engineers, ML researchers, applied scientists, designers - while the smaller ones compete on speed, equity, and proximity to founders.

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How this list is built

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.

Last refreshed: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:35:25 GMT

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