42 Paris

University hub

17th arr. (Porte de Clichy), Paris · Porte de Clichy (M13, M14, RER C)

Xavier Niel's tuition-free, teacher-less coding school: a 24/7 hall of screens where students learn by shipping. Intense, meritocratic, and a rite of passage for a big slice of French engineering talent.

Why it matters for AI

A major talent pipeline into Paris AI startups (Mistral, Hugging Face and half the ecosystem recruit here); hosts student AI hackathons and corporate AI challenges through the year.

24/7 campus for studentsiMac clusterspeer-to-peer learninghackathon space

96 Boulevard Bessières, 75017 Paris

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