France is investing €655 million in artificial intelligence for the civil service, the government announces. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says the funding supports a “sovereign” conversational assistant designed to be shared across the public sector. The plan targets roughly one million civil servants and aims to provide a single chatbot for all government agents, rather than separate systems for different administrations. According to reporting, the initiative also includes a separate chatbot for health insurance services. The government frames the project as part of building national technological independence and developing AI capabilities for public administration. The announcement positions the chatbot as a tool to assist public agents in their work, with the common platform intended to standardize support and information handling across services. While the sources focus on the budget, the scope of deployment, and the inclusion of a dedicated health insurance assistant, they provide limited detail on the chatbot’s specific features, timeline, or governance beyond the stated objectives.