The most striking example is in orbit: Altair-1, the first satellite in a planned $1 billion, 50-satellite constellation, launched this month and reached orbit successfully. It flies NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin edge modules running Mistral's models for real-time Earth observation and autonomous operations, and was integrated by Loft Orbital and built in Abu Dhabi by Orbitworks, a joint venture between Loft Orbital and Marlan Space.

On the ground, sovereign AI is the other pillar. LINAGORA and Docaposte have secured the CANUT framework agreement, making Twake.ai, built on NVIDIA Nemotron, the sole referenced sovereign digital workplace for more than 2,500 French public organisations. In banking, SBS is launching a platform with NVIDIA to let banks run governed generative and agentic services inside their own environments. Mistral also introduced its Mistral Large 4 open model under private preview last week.

Elsewhere, L'Oréal is using NVIDIA ALCHEMI in research workflows, with the company claiming computational predictions combined with lab work can make discovery up to 100x faster than traditional methods. Mirakl has onboarded more than 70 million products with models on NVIDIA GPUs, cutting seller catalog onboarding to under two hours, while ThinkDeep and Akila built a digital-twin agent managing nearly 5,800 kilometres of roads and buildings in Côte-d'Or, cutting operating costs by 10% so far.

Hardware plans are also in motion: Bull is extending its European AI server production to NVIDIA Vera Rubin Ultra NVL72 systems planned for 2028, with rack integration at its newly inaugurated Angers factory. In quantum computing, Alice & Bob and Quandela have both integrated NVIDIA's NVQLink platform to connect GPUs with their respective superconducting and photonic qubits.