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Nvidia-Backed Pigment Nabs $250 Million to Challenge Microsoft

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Pigment, a French AI company that competes with Microsoft’s Excel and PowerPoint, has raised $250 million in a funding round, bolstering a push by a prominent European startup to take on an American…

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