SoftBank, Llama 3, and AI in France

Wow, that SoftBank investment fueling the "AI builds France" project is… intense. As someone who's been experimenting with fine-tuning Llama 3 70B on historical French legal documents using Databricks’ Photon engine for faster data loading, the scale of this is genuinely unsettling. It highlights just how quickly the compute and ambition around localized AI are escalating, and I'm curious to see how the project addresses the inherent biases that inevitably creep into any model trained on a specific national dataset – particularly given the reported 98% French language focus.