The American digital and AI giants have their size on their side. In France, initiatives are being put in place aimed at bringing out alternatives. In terms of generative AI, the challenge is in particular to enable European technological sovereignty.
But what if the solution to the pre-eminence of Big Techs was not to create champions, but to combine their expertise? This is in a way the approach favored by Docaposte.
IAGen for public and private actors exploiting sensitive data
A subsidiary of the La Poste group and positioned as a trusted third party and guarantor of data protection, even sovereignty, Docaposte maintains these main principles to apply them to generative AI.
The company announces the launch, from November, of its first sovereign generative AI solution. And for its debut, Docaposte has chosen a partnership with French players: LightOn, Aleia and NumSpot.
With this product, the publisher is particularly targeting “public and private actors exploiting sensitive data” and wishing to accelerate their digital transformation and operational efficiency “by means of trust-generative AI.”
Docaposte’s ambition is to ultimately provide a whole suite of IAGen building blocks covering multiple use cases. At this stage, the actor places a first module on the market, in the form of a conversational agent.
A chatbot powered by generative AI
Generative AI models make it possible to boost the performance of traditional chatbots based on decision trees. Such an AI-enhanced agent can therefore already generate value, especially in “highly sensitive” sectors, including health.
Docaposte’s “sovereign generative AI solution will make it possible to optimize the efficiency of different professions and processes, in particular by modeling know-how and helping with decision-making,” highlights the publisher.
The promises thanks to IAGen also cover an increased development of automation (“of certain tasks”) and gains in efficiency and productivity of organizations. And to deliver these promises, Docaposte therefore chooses to bring together “sovereign actors.”
Association of expertise rather than lone wolf
The design of the generative AI suite is led by Docaposte’s data/AI division, under the coordination of Guillaume Leboucher. He is the CEO and founder of Openvalue, a company specializing in AI acquired a few years earlier by La Poste.
The Docaposte model for existing in a market dominated by the Americans is that of a “combination of expertise and skills”. LightOn provides LLMs and the Paradigm design platform.
Aleia’s mission is to provide “secure and easily deployable workspaces.” SecNumCloud certified public cloud provider, NumSpot finally covers the hosting of data and AI projects.
Let us specify that “NumSpot is a consortium led by Docaposte with La Banque des Territoires, Dassault Systèmes and Bouygues Telecom.” Dassault owns Outscale, whose cloud infrastructure is SecNumCloud certified.