How Europe’s AI Strategy Diverges from Silicon Valley’s

Europe is using VivaTech 2026 to showcase an AI strategy centered on governance, privacy, and infrastructure independence.

Unlike Silicon Valley’s scale-first model, Europe is prioritizing industrial AI for manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, cybersecurity, and energy.

A TechCrunch-VivaTech partnership will spotlight startups through the VivaTech Innovation of the Year competition.

The winner will pitch in Paris and could advance toward Startup Battlefield 200.