Scaleway, the cloud and AI subsidiary of France's iliad Group, on Wednesday set out a series of partnerships with enterprises, public research institutions and deep tech firms spanning cloud, artificial intelligence, hardware and quantum computing. The company framed the agreements as evidence that European cloud adoption has moved from stated intent to actual procurement.
The enterprise names anchor the announcement. LVMH selected Scaleway to build a European cloud platform and gain tighter control over cloud costs, technology choices and its longer-term digital transformation. Insurer MAIF is modernising its cloud foundations while keeping links to existing systems, with managed services and AI use cases in view. Media group Ouest-France will use Scaleway to support its digital transition across content production, data management and audience experiences. ChapsVision, which describes itself as a European leader in trusted data intelligence, picked Scaleway to support the growth of its platform and AI portfolio.
Damien Lucas, Scaleway's chief executive, argued that the calculus for large organisations has changed. Critical services, in his account, should not depend on platforms that can be restricted, suspended or governed by decisions taken outside Europe. The case to customers centres on reducing extraterritorial exposure and limiting technological dependencies — a concern sharpened by years of debate over US jurisdiction reaching European data.
Beyond the marquee customers, Scaleway listed partners including Odigo, Orasio and the CHU of Montpellier, which leads a consortium aiming to stand up the first AI-powered hospital in France. The provider is also working with VSORA, ZML and Région Île-de-France to deploy a European AI inference offer built on VSORA's French-designed Jotunn8 processor, paired with ZML's managed inference stack.
A year on from a strategic partnership with national computing agency GENCI and research body CNRS, the parties pointed to roughly ten projects now underway. Among them is RATP's Sillon project, developed with startup Pleias: a 600-million-parameter language model trained entirely on synthetic data to detect passenger distress or emergencies, built on public computing resources at IDRIS and deployed for inference on Scaleway.
Scaleway also extended its quantum offering through a partnership with Quobly, a French firm building silicon-based quantum processors. Quobly's Alloy Pioneer emulator is now available on Scaleway's Quantum as a Service platform, with access to physical quantum hardware targeted for the end of 2026.
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