LightOn said on Jun 19, 2025 that Ariane Group subsidiary Sodern had given all 450 staff access to LightOn's Paradigm AI platform

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On Jun 19, 2025, LightOn said that Sodern, a subsidiary of Ariane Group, had chosen LightOn's Paradigm generative AI platform for its whole organization, and that all 450 Sodern employees had secure access to it. LightOn filed the release, in French, with the AMF, France's financial markets regulator, as inside information, the category for news a listed company must publish promptly.1^,2^,3^,4^,5

The release said Sodern chose Paradigm in response to issues of sovereignty and performance, and that it had restricted consumer AI tools early on over data-security concerns. Paradigm ran on Sodern's own Dell and NVIDIA infrastructure, according to the release. The release said the first use cases deployed included generating, cleaning and documenting code, retrieving relevant information from technical or administrative document bases, drafting text quickly and summarizing documents.2^,6^,3^,7

Jean-Marc Espinasse, Sodern's deputy general manager and operations director, said in the release that the deployment was Sodern's first step into generative AI, bringing the technology to its data in a highly constrained environment. He added that doing it on Sodern's own infrastructure with a recognized French provider, competent across the value chain, was a condition sine qua non, and that LightOn met the challenge. Igor Carron, LightOn's co-founder and chief executive, said Paradigm showed that sovereignty, security and the power of generative AI could be combined in industry, and called Sodern an emblematic example of an effective deployment. The release said that within a few months adoption was real and results were visible, citing faster processes, time saved for technical, sales and support teams, and shorter response times in strategic contexts.8^,9^,10^,11

The release described Sodern as an equipment maker serving customers in defense, space and raw-materials extraction, with revenue above 85 million euros in 2024.12^,13

The release we hold runs 3 pages, with its pictures and layout left out, and we hold none of the documents it refers to. The text we hold states no productivity figure, no contract value and no price for the deployment.14^,15