France’s domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure), will replace American firm Palantir’s data analysis tools with software from the French company ChapsVision. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced this decision on June 16, 2026, framing it as part of a broader push to prioritize sovereign technology within the French state and reduce strategic dependencies in the digital sphere, particularly regarding AI. This move comes despite Palantir having renewed its three-year contract with the DGSI in December 2025, extending a relationship that had lasted for nearly a decade, with the agreement theoretically running until 2028.
The replacement software is ChapsVision’s ArgonOS, an AI-powered data-processing platform controlled by entrepreneur Olivier Dellenbach. ChapsVision had been competing for this role since 2022. This decision aligns with a wider European trend; Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the BfV, also recently selected ChapsVision over Palantir. Lecornu emphasized that France cannot accept new strategic digital dependencies, citing a recent incident where access to AI firm Anthropic's Fable model was cut off for non-American users, reinforcing concerns about foreign AI access being susceptible to political will. He announced a 655 million euro ($760 million) investment in developing France's own AI, under the "France 2030" program.
Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel with CIA backing, faces scrutiny from advocacy groups regarding potential mass surveillance, privacy infringements, and data protection risks. British lawmakers have also called for the National Health Service (NHS) to end its contract with Palantir, citing concerns about reliance on US-based providers. The exact timeline for the handover from Palantir to ChapsVision, as well as the value of the new ChapsVision contract, have not been disclosed. Migrating an intelligence service's analytical platform is a complex process expected to take time beyond the announcement.
