LightOn is a French company that develops generative AI for organisations, enabling them to search, extract, compare and cross-check information in their own documents. Its offering consists of LightOn Core for document parsing, extraction and retrieval, and LightOn Apps. The company trains its own document understanding and retrieval models, which it describes as open-weight. Developers can request 15-day test access to the API. The Paradigm platform is described as a secure enterprise platform designed for on-premise use; LightOn works with partners such as Orange Business and HPE on this.
LightOn SA was founded in 2016, is based in Paris and is listed on Euronext Growth Paris. No foreign parent company is known. The company presents itself as a European business that builds its AI models in-house and says customers decide who sees which knowledge. Some of its models are published as open source; the platform itself is not offered as open source. For a European organisation, it is a vendor headquartered in the EU with an on-premise option.