What is sovereign AI?
By 0plus Team
The one-sentence definition
Sovereign AI is artificial intelligence that runs entirely inside an environment you control — your servers, your keys, your network boundary — with no calls to public AI services.
Why it matters now
Placeholder draft. Regulated industries and government bodies can't send records to hosted models. Sovereignty makes AI usable where the data can't move.
How to verify it
Placeholder draft. The test is at the network layer: zero outbound traffic to AI endpoints, confirmable with your own egress monitoring.
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