OpengateLLM

OpenGateLLM (also known as Albert API) addresses a structural issue to the adoption of generative AI across the French public sector: administrations handling sensitive and regulated data currently depend on costly, non-sovereign commercial APIs and GPU infrastructures. This creates strong constraints on compliance, budget control, and long-term sustainability. OpenGateLLM is designed as a shared, interministerial inference platform that offers a secure and sovereign alternative, hosted on SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructure in France. Its goal is to provide a single, production-ready access point to a wide range of generative AI models (open-weight and proprietary) while remaining fully compatible with market standards such as OpenAI-style APIs. By relying on OpenGateLLM as an open-source, lightweight and scalable gateway, the API focuses on what administrations lack today: reliable model routing, usage monitoring, user and project governance, cost control, and the ability to integrate generative AI rapidly into digital public services without embedding business assumptions in the platform itself. In short,

The Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) is France’s central authority responsible for steering the digital transformation of the public sector. Created to modernize and streamline the country’s administrative processes, DINUM works to ensure that public services are more accessible, efficient, and secure for both citizens and businesses. It plays a central role in shaping and implementing France’s digital strategy.DINUM leads the development of user-centric digital services, such as simplifying access to online administrative procedures through a single, secure login. Beyond service delivery, the agency oversees the management and sharing of public data, promoting transparency and innovation in the public field.Another key aspect of DINUM’s mission is to coordinate digital efforts across government ministries to create a unified digital public ecosystem. By centralizing expertise and resources, DINUM drives operational efficiency and digital inclusion, ensuring that all public agents can benefit from. Within DINUM, the "AI in Government" team is responsible for developing AI building blocks that can be used across ministries and are interoperable within the government. Two of their main tools are Albert API, an interdepartmental inference platform, enabling government departments to equip themselves with generative artificial intelligence, and the AI Assistant, a generic chatbot that provides every government official with a functional agent.