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Fact-checking : synthèse sur Delos (Delos Intelligence / delos.so)

Fact-checking synthesis on **Delos Intelligence** (delos.so), a French B2B generative AI startup, comparing a prior tech-watch note against **primary sources** (Alexandre Dewez's "Overlooked" post / 20VC, April 15, 2025, the delos.so website, official registries) and specialized press (Le Monde Informatique, L'Usine Nouvelle, FrenchWeb, Le JDD). **Overall verdict: reliable factual backbone.** The **€2.5M seed round** (≈$2.74–2.83M) led by **20VC** (Harry Stebbings) in **April 2025**, with Inovia Capital, Kima Ventures (Xavier Niel) and Plug and Play, is confirmed; so are the founders (brothers **Pierre** and **Thibaut de la Grand'rive**) and the clients **TotalEnergies, Shiseido, Groupe Casino**. **Strong methodological point**: the list of business angels — often suspected of hallucinatory "padding" — is **CONFIRMED word for word** by the lead investor's press release (Pigment, Dataiku, Hexa plus Ramp and Kerala to add): this is therefore NOT a hallucination. **To correct**: the "50 people" headcount is **not sourceable** (~20 in April 2025, about forty by late 2025); the actual pricing grid is richer (a **Student tier at €10** plus Enterprise on request, in addition to €25/45/80); user figures (10,000 → 50,000 → "100,000+") and ARR are **self-reported and unaudited**. **To flag as speculative**: **no Series A has closed** (only announced as an intention targeting March 2026); **no overall ARR published** (the only mention is a self-promotional "$1M ARR in a few days" for the new **Workers** product, referring to that product alone). "100% Scaleway" sovereignty was **still being finalized** at the end of 2025 (compute still partly running on Azure France). The note's interest is as much methodological — **how to distinguish, within an AI-generated synthesis, what is confirmed, partially accurate, speculative, and self-reported** — as it is documentary.

#Delos Intelligence#delos.so#fact-checking

Synthèse de veille (fact-checking) — sources primaires : blog 20VC (Alexandre Dewez) · delos.so · registres officiels ; presse : Le Monde Informatique · L'Usine Nouvelle · FrenchWeb · Le JDD

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ZML/LLMD : et si le « Docker des LLM » était français ?

SFEIR analysis (consulting-firm voice) of the launch, on July 8, 2026, of **LLMD** by the Paris-based startup **ZML** (founded by **Steeve Morin**, former VP Engineering at Zenly): an inference server that runs LLMs across **five chip families** (NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, Google TPU, Intel oneAPI, Apple Metal) **from a single codebase**. Structuring thesis: training is ceding the spotlight to **inference**, where cost per token, latency, and above all **dependence on silicon** are now decided. ZML's bet — summed up by the motto *model to metal* — is to **decouple the model from the hardware** via a compiler written in **Zig + MLIR** that produces a hermetic native binary, with no Python in the execution path, exposed through an **OpenAI-compatible API**. Two components, two licenses: **ZML** (the framework, Apache-2.0, >90% Zig) is open source; **LLMD** (the server) is not, free at launch. The article reads the object through three consulting-firm lenses — **token FinOps**, **architectural freedom** (Design to Exit), **sovereignty** (emerging European chips, integration into the VSORA Jotunn8 processor) — then delivers an unsparing verdict: it is an **alpha**, to be placed "under active watch," not to switch to today.

#LLM Inference#serving#ZML

SFEIR (voix éditoriale du cabinet)