"We are a very different company to Palantir," says "discreet" French replacement
The managing director of the little-known French startup thrown into the spotlight when it was chosen by France's domestic intelligence services to replace controversial US data analytics giant Palant... ChapsVision says it's attracting a lot of interest from European governments. Artificial Intelligence "We are a very different company to Palantir," says "discreet" French replacement ChapsVision says it's attracting a lot of interest from European governments.
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- John Reynolds 1 hour ago Share Share Send email Copy link The managing director of the little-known French startup thrown into the spotlight when it was chosen by France's domestic intelligence services to replace controversial US data analytics giant Palantir doesn't like the company being called the "European Palantir".
Silvano Sansoni, managing director of the 2019-founded ChapsVision , says: "We are a very different company.
- Palantir had initially signed a contract with France's intelligence services, known as the DGSI, in 2016, after the 2015 Bataclan attacks, and had its contract renewed several times, including six months ago.
France's prime minister Sébastien Lecornu called ditching Palantir a move to avoid "strategic dependency".
- He says ChapsVision, which provides software to help clients analyse large datasets, is "currently talking with basically all of the European governments", naming governments in Poland, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
While not naming any inked deals, the German intelligence services recently chose ChapsVision over US rivals.
- 9bn of Palantir, which has wide-ranging US government experience, successfully fulfil the DGSI contract?
ChapsVision's pitch is that it lets its customers control their tech, satisfying sovereignty demands, a red-hot issue with the French government.
- Sansoni says potential customers, be it governments or businesses, want to work with providers, like ChapsVision, which provide sovereign, transparent tech which customers are not locked into for a long time.
ChapsVision says it's attracting a lot of interest from European governments. Artificial Intelligence "We are a very different company to Palantir," says "discreet" French replacement ChapsVision says it's attracting a lot of interest from European governments. John Reynolds 1 hour ago Share Share Send email Copy link The managing director of the little-known French startup thrown into the spotlight when it was chosen by France's domestic intelligence services to replace controversial US data analytics giant Palantir doesn't like the company being called the "European Palantir".
Silvano Sansoni, managing director of the 2019-founded ChapsVision , says: "We are a very different company. I wouldn't match ChapsVision as a European Palantir. "For advertising it is a good comparison, but we are really a different company.
We work on a different philosophy. " Palantir ditched The surprise move to ditch Palantir was announced by France in June this year. Palantir had initially signed a contract with France's intelligence services, known as the DGSI, in 2016, after the 2015 Bataclan attacks, and had its contract renewed several times, including six months ago.
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