OVHcloud Says Its First Open-Source LLM Will Arrive at the End of November

OVHcloud, the cloud group based in Roubaix, plans to release its first in-house large language model as open source at the end of November, founder and chief executive Octave Klaba said in an interview with La Tribune published on October 20. Ouest-France and Frandroid reported that the first version is finishing training and that Klaba described it as different from other models and very far ahead of its time in its architecture.

OVHcloud has set three priorities for its models: cybersecurity, both defensive and offensive; help with programming; and agents for business functions the company runs itself, such as finance, human resources, law and logistics. The first release will not cover exactly those three areas. The company is training its models first for its own use and on its own data, and Klaba argues that an in-house model protects it from a rival one day cutting off access. In March 2026, OVHcloud bought Dragon LLM, a Paris startup that developed a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture, but it has not said whether the November model uses it.

The announcement came on the day OVHcloud reported annual results: revenue of €1.145 billion for the year to August 31, up 7.2% at constant scope, and positive free cash flow of €24.7 million, according to Frandroid. Klaba also ruled out an alliance with Mistral AI, which he likened to an AI services integrator, and said the cost of training a model has fallen at least twentyfold in two years.

What it means in practice

For French and European customers, a model from a domestic cloud provider could add another sovereign option alongside Mistral, particularly for sensitive security and code workloads where data location matters. OVHcloud already supplies infrastructure for European space work through its ESA digital Earth observation contract with CGI, and its rivalry with Paris labs recalls Mistral's own open-weight push with Large 4. But OVHcloud has disclosed neither the size of the model nor any benchmark results, so its claims cannot yet be checked.

The budget is also modest by industry standards. Klaba said the company plans no capital increase for the effort, betting on falling training costs rather than billion-euro spending. The model is due in the same month that OVHcloud's annual Summit is expected to open the beta of OVHai Workspace, its suite combining email, storage, video calls and AI agents.

What to watch: the model's licence, size and benchmark scores at release, whether the date slips, and how quickly OVHcloud offers it to customers rather than using it only internally.