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SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, BNP PARIBAS, DASSAULT AVIATION, BIOMERIEUX: the week in innovation at large corporations
Original title, in French: “SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, BNP PARIBAS, DASSAULT AVIATION, BIOMERIEUX : la semaine de l’innovation des grands groupes”
- Publication
- FrenchWeb (France)
- Author
- Unsigned
- Published on
- 25 September 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
Between 18 and 24 September, several large French groups announced AI-related initiatives. BNP Paribas has signed a five-year agreement with Google Cloud to integrate Gemini into its internal assistant LLM@CIB, already used by more than 65,000 people; its subsidiary Nickel uses a Gemini assistant for 200 advisers. Société Générale is partnering with Anthropic under a roadmap running to 2029, aiming for savings of €500 to 600 million, of which €350 million has already been identified. MAIF has chosen Scaleway, Mistral AI and Diabolocom for its generative AI tools and customer relations. Schneider Electric is unveiling a cooling unit for AI data centres. Dassault Aviation has flight-tested two AI algorithms on a Rafale, one of them developed with Thales. Other groups (KNDS, Airbus, bioMérieux, Orange, Lesaffre, SYSTRA, Dassault Systèmes) are announcing technology projects, some of them AI-related, according to FrenchWeb.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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65,000 people
Number of people with access to the internal assistant LLM@CIB at BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas
« La banque prévoit d’intégrer les modèles Gemini à LLM@CIB, son assistant interne déjà accessible à plus de 65 000 personnes. »
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200 advisers
Number of customer advisers using the Gemini assistant at Nickel
Nickel, a BNP Paribas subsidiary
« chez Nickel, filiale du groupe, un assistant utilisant Gemini aide déjà 200 conseillers clientèle à retrouver des réponses dans les procédures internes. »
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550 millions of euros
Société Générale's savings target linked to AI and simplification initiatives
Société Générale, by 2029
« Le groupe vise entre 500 et 600 millions d’euros d’économies grâce à un ensemble d’initiatives de simplification, de réorganisation des processus et de développement progressif de l’IA ; environ 350 millions d’euros seraient déjà identifiés. »
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3.5 megawatts
Announced capacity of Schneider Electric's Motivair cooling unit
Motivair range, Schneider Electric
« Développée dans sa gamme Motivair, elle combine refroidissement liquide et circulation d’air, avec une capacité annoncée allant jusqu’à 3,5 mégawatts par unité. »
Classification
- Country
- France
- Company size
- Large companies
- Industries
- Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Industry and manufacturing · Healthcare, pharmaceuticals, social care · Energy, utilities, environment · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms
- Companies
- Nickel (deploys AI), Dassault Systèmes (supplier), Lesaffre (deploys AI), Schneider Electric (deploys AI), Société Générale (deploys AI), Scaleway (supplier), Diabolocom (supplier), Orange Ventures (deploys AI), SYSTRA (deploys AI), Plateforme des données de santé (cited), Shelly Group (cited), Dassault Aviation (deploys AI), Biolevate (supplier), Thales (supplier), Cognite (cited), Google Cloud (supplier), Arquus (cited), KNDS (deploys AI), bioMérieux (deploys AI), Airbus (deploys AI), Orange Business (deploys AI), Enovalife (supplier), Dalkia (deploys AI), ÉS (deploys AI), Anthropic (supplier), MAIF (deploys AI), Aerix Systems (supplier), Mistral AI (supplier), BNP Paribas (deploys AI)
- Keywords
- generative AI, banking, defence, data centres, AI assistant, healthcare
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to FrenchWeb. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.