France will equip public officials with AI tools that are "sovereign and controllable".

French Prime Minister Le Maire said on social media platform on the 16th that France will equip public officials with a sovereign and controllable conversational artificial intelligence assistant to avoid reliance on foreign technological tools and ensure the protection of national data. According to reports, this work will be led by the French government's interdepartmental digital affairs management agency. The tool, called "AI Assistant", was developed with the assistance of the French Mistral artificial intelligence company and can assist public officials in conversations, document transcription, document analysis, content generation, and more.