Global Public Sector

ThinkDeep’s Sovereign AI Agents Help Automate Public Services for the Government of France

Objective

To aid the French government in improving the efficiency of its public services, ThinkDeep AI, a sovereign AI technology company, developed a multi-agent assistant platform called DeepBrain that allows public servants to build their own personal assistants connected to a wide range of data sources. The AI agents collect and consolidate the data in knowledge bases, allowing them to cross-reference information from different sources and channels to find patterns for applications ranging from security threats and code review to fraud detection.

Together, ThinkDeep and NVIDIA worked to develop DeepBrain AI agents, capable of processing information from millions of PDF documents, scanned images, schemas, and videos.

Customer

French public sector and administration (Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Defense)

Partner

ThinkDeep AI

Use Case

Document Processing
Conversational AI
Generative AI / LLMs

Products

NVIDIA AI Enterprise
NVIDIA NIM
NVIDIA NeMo Curator
NVIDIA NeMo Retriever
NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails
NVIDIA DGX H100
NVIDIA Jetson Orin

Agentic AI for Sovereign AI Solutions

Sovereign AI refers to a country’s capacity to develop and deploy artificial intelligence using its domestic infrastructure, local datasets, skilled workforce, and business ecosystems. In the public sector, sovereign AI often means maintaining security and integrity over sensitive data, creating a demand for AI solutions that can operate within a government’s own infrastructure, ensuring critical data remains protected and accessible only to authorized personnel.

The French administration annually handles over 100 million documents to provide tailored responses to citizen inquiries. This process requires public servants to stay abreast of changing regulations, maintain accuracy, and cite specific legal references relevant to each request. 

For public services to function efficiently, these professionals must deliver rapid and dependable answers across their areas of expertise, but also be able to process huge amounts of legal documentation in real time while ensuring at all times data confidentiality, security, and compliance with the European AI Act.

Implementing and maintaining effective sovereign AI solutions require substantial computing power. To solve the data and document processing issues facing France’s Ministry of Economy and Finance and Ministry of Defense, the ThinkDeep team turned to the NVIDIA AI platform. The modular, flexible platform with an NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU, NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including NVIDIA NIM™ microservices such as NVIDIA NeMo™ Retriever, NVIDIA Llama Nemotron models, and NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails was used to develop DeepBrain, an agentic AI solution.

“ThinkDeep AI knowledge and expertise have been instrumental in deploying and scaling our generative AI platform,” said Thomas Binder, head of AI at the French General Directorate of Public Finances.

France’s Public Agent: The DeepBrain Multi-Agent System

DeepBrain allows domain-specific AI agents that are able to connect and interact with huge amounts of data from different sources in order to extract and analyze information to find relevant patterns. The DeepBrain agent’s unique data confidentiality approach guarantees the data stays on the customer infrastructure at all times, to ensure the highest level of security and confidentiality.

Through DeepBrain, users can have their own fraud detection agent or an agent for legal document processing, using domain knowledge aggregated from all the French legal documentation. As a multi-agent system, these agents can interact with one another to realize complex workflows or answer cross-domain queries.

ThinkDeep ensures peak performance by utilizing advanced NVIDIA technologies, including NIM for integrating, packaging, and deploying the newest large language models (LLMs) on premise, and NVIDIA Dynamo to optimize inference speed for state-of-the-art reasoning models. ThinkDeep also used the NeMo framework to seamlessly integrate LLMs and vision language models (VLMs) into its existing infrastructure.

To ensure the safe and responsible use of these powerful AI agents, ThinkDeep implemented robust guardrails using the NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails toolkit. The guardrails provide essential safeguards against potential risks such as biased or harmful outputs, helping them to maintain the highest standards of ethical AI practice.

To ensure data sovereignty and confidentiality, the Ministry of Economy and Finance selected NVIDIA for a sovereign on-premises infrastructure solution. The NVIDIA DGX™ platform allows the ministry access to the GPUs required to serve millions of daily users with the latest models.

AI Agents Saving French Government Time and Money

The benefits of DeepBrain for the French government include faster document processing, cost savings, productivity gains, and energy savings.

  • Customers were able to automate the document retrieval process, improving from two days to two minutes.
  • Implementation was low effort, with just one week to set up DeepBrain instance and configure connectors.
  • Productivity increased with 1,000 hours saved per month for a typical 100-user deployment.
  • The Ministry of Finance has saved €2 million by deploying DeepBrain at scale for 10,000 employees.
  • By controlling the models and infrastructure, the ministry optimized energy management and lowered energy management and environmental costs.

DeepBrain has significantly accelerated legal document analysis for public servants. What previously took up to two days to find relevant information now takes two minutes, allowing faster response times and saving millions of euros, both in operational costs and by detecting potential fraud faster and earlier in the process.

The DeepBrain Graph methodology enables real-time, effortless searching across millions of files and relationships, delivering sourced and precise answers. Simultaneously, it constructs custom, domain-specific knowledge bases adapted to individual use cases and users.

Since the launch of its DeepBrain product, ThinkDeep has experienced significant market traction and customer interest, particularly within the sovereign AI domain. The increased demand spans a wide range of industries, including finance, public sector organizations, aerospace, and energy. The sovereign AI capabilities of DeepBrain likely appeal to these sectors due to their need for data security, control, and compliance with local regulations.

Results

  • €2 million saved for the French public in deploying DeepBrain at scale to 10,000 Ministry of Finance employees.
  • 1,000 work hours saved per month for a typical deployment to 100 users.
  • Decreased the document retrieval process from two days to two minutes.

Looking Forward

As the world becomes increasingly data-driven, DeepBrain AI’s groundbreaking technology is poised to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence and its impact on society.

The collaboration between ThinkDeep and NVIDIA has proven to be a highly successful endeavor, leading to advancements in AI research and development. The partnership will continue to evolve, particularly as ThinkDeep dives deeper into the realm of multi-agent AI reasoning systems.

The potential applications of multi-agent systems are vast and far-reaching, spanning industries such as finance, healthcare, and logistics. By harnessing collective intelligence, DeepBrain AI empowers businesses and organizations to make more informed decisions, optimize their operations, and drive innovation.

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