Sovereign AI: what it means for an EU company
AI running on infrastructure under your jurisdiction, with auditable data flows. The definition, the regulatory drivers and the case for a 50-person firm.
Filed under sovereign-ai
Three ways to deploy: from air-gap to cloud
Most firms think sovereign AI = on-prem or nothing. That is a false binary. There are three tracks, and most regulated SMEs will end up on Track B.
Dense or MoE: which open model to pick
Four open-weight models, hardware requirements that match reality, and a decision tree that does not lie about VRAM. As of May 2026.
The coding model that stays on your servers (2026)
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B activates 3.3B parameters per token and fits a 48 GB workstation at AWQ 4-bit. Apache 2.0 licence.
Sovereign AI - why now
Three EU regulations killed the cloud-AI default for regulated SMEs in 2025. Here's what replaces it, and what you should build instead.