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TECHNOLOGY

Thales and CEA

collaborate to

integrate AI in defence

and security

Thales contributes defence expertise while CEA
offers multimodal generative AI know-how to
enhance AI solutions for critical missions.

The Thales AI research teams at the Group’s AI accelerator for
mission-critical systems will work with the CEA teams to deliver
sovereign trusted AI solutions.

hales and the French Alternative Energies and
TAtomic Energy Commission (CEA) have signed a new
partnership agreement in the field of generative artifi-
cial intelligence (AI). Through this three-year renewable
partnership, Thales will provide its AI expertise and
deep knowledge of the defense and security sectors,
while the CEA will contribute its know-how in multi-
modal generative AI (based on text, images, audio, elec-
tromagnetic signals, structured data, and other inputs)
to accelerate the integration of AI into solutions for
Thales customers with critical mission requirements.
The Thales AI research teams at the Group’s AI accelera-
tor for mission-critical systems will work with the CEA
teams to deliver sovereign trusted AI solutions.
Thales’s AI Lab and CEA, both noted for innovation and
critical research, have partnered to advance generative
AI solutions, with a focus on intelligence and command
applications. Generative AI can be developed to ac-
celerate OODA command loops (observe, orient, decide,
act) and implemented across the entire critical decision
chain; sensing and data gathering, data transmission
and storage, data processing, and decision support.
To simplify communication between member states
in the context of a joint operation, trusted generative
AI will facilitate interaction between operators and
complex systems by translating their intentions into
a sequence of actions and translating technical terms
into the languages of the various nations involved.
Bertrand Tavernier, Chief Technical Officer for Thales’s
Secure Communications and Information Systems busi-
ness said, “This partnership with the CEA’s AI teams will

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