Part of the money will also go to climate change initiatives.

https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/2019611562718154770?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5832049&forum_id=2most#49653123)

Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron

In France, we believe in science.

That is why, on May 5, I issued a clear and open call to the world: for science, choose France.

I am very proud to see that this call has resonated so strongly.

Around forty leading researchers have chosen France.

Through “France 2030”, we have invested more than €30 million to advance health, climate action, artificial intelligence, and fundamental sciences.

Science has found its home.

8:53 PM · Feb 4, 2026 · 3.9M Views

https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/2019137350022955117?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5832049&forum_id=2most#49653124)

France has done this before: making a big fanfare about an initiative to 'beat' the US in some tech or industry race, only to crash and burn.

They never win.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5832049&forum_id=2most#49653130)

€30 million. For four fields. Combined.

Let me put that number in American terms.

OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in a single funding round. Microsoft spent $80 billion on AI infrastructure in fiscal 2025. Google spent $91.4 billion. Amazon spent $131.8 billion. That’s four American companies deploying over $300 billion in a single year on AI alone. France’s entire “Choose France for Science” commitment across health, climate, AI, and fundamental research is what Microsoft spends in roughly 3 hours.

And Macron announced this €30 million alongside a €100 million recruitment fund to attract 40 international researchers. Sounds generous until you learn that his own government cut €930 million from the French research budget in February 2025, then cut another €387 million in April. France is spending €100 million on a recruitment brochure while pulling over €1.3 billion out of the system in the same year.

The 40 researchers who “chose France” are walking into a country where 70% of university buildings are in disrepair, where labs cancel train tickets because they can’t cover the fare, and where the CNRS, France’s biggest research agency, got its budget slashed because the government saw it had savings and took them.

Meanwhile in America, even with Trump’s cuts to federal research funding, US private sector AI investment is running at a pace no government on earth can match. Amazon just announced $200 billion in capex for 2026. Google is targeting $175 to $185 billion. These are single-company numbers that exceed the GDP of most European countries. The US doesn’t need a “Choose America for Science” website. The capital flows speak for themselves.

France spends 2.26% of GDP on R&D, below the EU’s own 3% target and well below the US at 3.5%. French startup fundraising fell 60% in the first half of 2025. French science unions called Macron’s recruitment push “shocking, borderline obscene” while their own labs crumble.

€30 million is a rounding error. Macron is pricing the future of French science at what an American Series A startup raises before it has revenue.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5832049&forum_id=2most#49653137)

a laughable, flamboyant people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5832049&forum_id=2most#49653140)

Respect your French betters

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5832049&forum_id=2most#49653151)