France’s domestic intelligence agency DGSI will replace its Palantir data tools with software from French firm ChapsVision, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced Tuesday, framing the move as part of a broader push to promote sovereign technology solutions. Lecornu also said the government will give all French civil servants access to an AI assistant powered by domestic champion Mistral AI. Palantir had partnered with the DGSI since 2016, and as recently as December 2025 announced a further three-year contract extension — though at the time the DGSI itself said the renewal was granted only “pending the deployment of a new sovereign tool,” signalling the transition had long been planned. ChapsVision, the French AI company behind the ArgonOS platform, had already been supplying software to several French government bodies; its product is also used by Germany’s domestic intelligence service BfV, which in May 2026 chose ArgonOS over Palantir for large-scale data analysis.
The decision is the latest in a quickening European withdrawal from US technology vendors across sensitive national security infrastructure. France is Palantir’s second-largest European market after the United Kingdom. The announcement lands as Brussels and individual member-state capitals have grown increasingly uneasy about dependence on American software following shifts in US foreign policy under the Trump administration; Lecornu explicitly invoked sovereign technology as the rationale, and the simultaneous commitment to Mistral AI for the civil service signals an intent to anchor France’s AI stack in European-owned models. Palantir did not immediately comment on the DGSI announcement.