Sovereign AI

On buying intelligence as a service

 October 19, 2026

In the last couple of years, most companies have adopted some kind of AI. Most of them have done so by buying API access from a small number of frontier labs. This approach has the lowest barrier to entry and is often the preferred starting point, but it’s problematic because of the huge, unmanageable costs it creates, the shrinking, potentially useless gap in capabilities with open-weight models, and many sovereignty issues.