France Scraps AI Deal with Palantir in Sovereignty Push

The French government announced a sovereign AI push, declaring that its intelligence agency would stop working with US company Palantir. France will turn to a local alternative alongside a pledge to invest €655 million in the technology through to 2030.

Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced the plans in a video on X as the country advances its sovereign technology ambitions and a desire to reduce dependence on US offerings. The debate around sovereignty continues to heat up. Prime Minister Lecornu pointed to the issue in announcing the decision to cut ties with Palantir, stating that France must have its own tools. “We cannot rely on the goodwill of certain partners who, as we have seen in recent days, are capable of cutting off access to the Anthropic model.”

The intelligence agency DGSI is to replace Palantir’s data tools with an alternative made by privately-controlled French company ChapsVision. Palantir had worked with the agency for around a decade and announced a three-year renewal in December 2025. Concerns have been raised about Palantir due to ambitions in Europe to reduce the amount of sensitive data processed by US-based companies.

The prime minister said the €655 million investment would go towards infrastructure, computing capacity, research, business, and industrial sectors. As part of the plans, the government aims to provide all civil servants with a conversational assistant from domestic company Mistral AI, in addition to a public health assistant by the end of the year. “We can undergo this revolution. Or we can lead it. France has chosen. It will rise to the challenge of this revolution and intends to claim its full place in it,” Lecornu said.