Paris keeps its cyber testing at home as Mistral gets the work OpenAI cannot

France will use “sovereign” AI providers such as Mistral, not OpenAI, to test government systems for security vulnerabilities, Budget Minister David Amiel said Tuesday.

The announcement came days after a breach at the national tax agency exposed data of about 700,000 taxpayers.

“This excludes OpenAI”

After a cabinet meeting in Paris, Amiel told reporters the state would turn to what he called sovereign AI companies, “such as Mistral,” to do the work. “This excludes OpenAI,” he said.

Amiel had confirmed the plan itself earlier that day. The government would use AI tools to identify its own services’ vulnerabilities to cyber attacks. The catalyst was the tax agency breach disclosed the previous Thursday. The French Finance Ministry said the data of some 700,000 taxpayers had been taken.

Mistral, the Paris startup backed by chipmaking-equipment supplier ASML, has become the go-to company for France when it wants to demonstrate it can operate critical systems without relying on American technology.

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