Alteia

Alteia is a French visual intelligence company, based in Toulouse, that sells the Aether platform. Aether ingests imagery from drones, other aerial sources and sensors, and turns it into 2D and 3D views. It then runs AI models over that imagery to find things such as asset defects, vegetation that encroaches on power lines, and storm damage. The company was spun out of drone maker Delair in October 2020. GE Vernova agreed to acquire it in July 2025, and its technology underpins GE Vernova's GridOS Visual Intelligence offering for utilities. Named customers include Enedis, which uses it to automate grid inspections, Eramet in mining, Veolia for landfill management and Orange for infrastructure inventory. Beyond grid work, Alteia offers packaged apps for worksite management, mine optimization, field trial analysis, forestry and precision agriculture. Developers get an SDK, a CLI and an API to build custom analytics and train detection models. Enterprise accounts can use Azure AD single sign-on and OAuth2. Mobile apps (Alteia Capture, Infield and Works) support field data capture and 3D viewing. Pricing is not published. Each deal follows an enterprise project process, with a first deployment in roughly 8 to 12 weeks and production in 3 to 6 months. The main limitation for buyers is opacity: there is no public pricing and almost no independent user reviews. Since the GE Vernova acquisition, the product's direction is tied to GridOS, which may matter to buyers outside utilities.