France’s General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) will replace Palantir’s data analysis tools with those of French firm ChapsVision, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced Tuesday, six months after the U.S. company had secured a multiyear extension of a contract it had held since 2016.
Lecornu framed the decision as a sovereignty imperative, pointing to Washington’s move last week to restrict foreign nationals’ access to Anthropic’s Fable AI model as proof that reliance on U.S. technology platforms posed unacceptable strategic risks. “We cannot depend on the goodwill of some partners who are capable, as we’ve seen in recent days, of cutting off access to Anthropic’s models,” he said.
Palantir responded by stating its DGSI contract “remains fully in force” and that cooperation “continues under the existing contractual commitments.”
Lecornu’s office subsequently clarified that Palantir’s tools would remain operational until ChapsVision’s ArgonOS, an AI-powered data processing platform, could be integrated, a process expected to take between one and three years.
The office added that the December 2025 renewal had been treated as a “temporary solution” from the start, intended to bridge the capability gap until a domestic alternative was ready, placing the two parties in an open dispute over the contract’s operative status.
ChapsVision, which was founded in 2019 and generated €200 million in revenue in 2025 against Palantir’s $4.5 billion, had been selected through a 2022 innovation partnership involving French intelligence, customs, and law enforcement services.
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) also chose ChapsVision over Palantir last month, while the German military had separately announced it would no longer use Palantir’s products.
Lecornu announced €655 million in AI investment through 2030 and the rollout of a Mistral-powered chatbot for 1 million of France’s 2.6 million civil servants.
