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Sovereignty, models, engineering
Notes on EU AI sovereignty, the open-source model landscape, and how Frontière AI is built.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: benchmarks, price, API
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, released 2026-09-10: 552B multimodal MoE, 1M context, MIT. What the technical report claims, what we measured on the gateway, and what it costs.
2026-09-11 · 7 min read
Best OpenRouter alternatives in 2026
Honest comparison of OpenRouter alternatives: Together AI, Groq, Fireworks, Venice AI and an EU-sovereign option. Price, jurisdiction and data handling.
2026-09-02 · 11 min read
EngineeringBest AI API Aggregator for Companies
Choosing an AI API aggregator for production: data sovereignty, compliance, billing and model quality. A buying guide for European teams.
2026-08-27 · 9 min read
EngineeringTop Open-Source and Self-Hosted AI Gateways
LiteLLM, Ollama, vLLM, TGI, xinference: the best open-source LLM gateways compared — and when a managed gateway like Frontière AI makes more sense.
2026-08-27 · 11 min read
Models & catalogWhat is Open-Weight AI? A clear guide
Open-weight models: what they are, how they differ from open-source and closed AI, and why enterprises are making the switch.
2026-08-27 · 6 min read
Models & catalogWhat is Open Source AI? The enterprise guide
Open source AI explained: why enterprises are switching from closed models, the best open-source models in 2026, and how to get started.
2026-08-27 · 6 min read
Models & catalogFrench open-source AI: actors and sovereignty
French open-source AI models and players: Mistral AI, Hugging Face, Frontière AI, Fleece AI — why Europe is building its own AI ecosystem independent of US tech giants.
2026-08-27 · 6 min read
EngineeringWhat is an AI API aggregator? A 2026 comparison
Frontière AI, OpenRouter, Together AI, Groq, Fireworks AI: which AI API aggregator fits your needs — and why none of the others are GDPR-compliant.
2026-08-26 · 6 min read
Sovereignty & complianceIs OpenAI GDPR-compliant? What EU firms need to know
OpenAI can be GDPR-compliant in practice, but it is a US company subject to the CLOUD Act — and that is a jurisdictional fact, not a setup choice.
2026-08-14 · 7 min read
Models & catalogBest open-source reasoning models in 2026
Open-weight models that think before answering: what reasoning actually costs, which models exist, and how to pick one for your workload.
2026-08-13 · 6 min read
Models & catalogOpen-source models with tool calling (measured)
Tool calling turns a model into an agent. Here is why it is a property of the serving stack, not the weights — and how to verify it before you build.
2026-08-12 · 5 min read
Models & catalogBest open-source embedding models for RAG in 2026
Dimensions, context, cost: the measured facts that decide which open-source embedding model to index your RAG corpus with — and why to lock it in early.
2026-08-11 · 6 min read
EngineeringSelf-hosting an LLM vs. calling an API: the numbers
A rented H100 costs the same whether it serves one token or a billion. Here is the break-even against per-token pricing, and how to compute your own.
2026-08-06 · 8 min read
Models & catalogBest open-source AI models for EU businesses, 2026
GLM-5.3, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Kimi K3, Llama 3.3, Gemma 3: which open-weight models are worth deploying, what they cost, and which run on EU sovereign infrastructure.
2026-08-03 · 7 min read
Sovereignty & complianceCloud and GDPR: why a US EU data centre isn't enough
A US company's EU data centre does not put your prompts outside US jurisdiction. The legal mechanism, and how to verify a provider's real exposure.
2026-08-03 · 7 min read
Competitor comparisons
Side by side with leading inference providers: jurisdiction, pricing, privacy, and sovereignty.
Frontière AI vs OpenRouter — EU sovereign alternative
OpenRouter is cheaper per token on commodity models. Frontière AI is a French company with EU-sovereign hosting — the alternative when jurisdiction matters.
ComparisonFrontière AI vs Together AI — EU sovereign alternative
Together AI runs its own US infrastructure and is cheaper on Llama 3.3 70B. Frontière AI is the French alternative routing to EU providers.
ComparisonFrontière AI vs Groq — EU sovereign alternative to LPU
Groq built custom LPU hardware for raw inference speed. Frontière AI is the French alternative routing to EU providers. Speed vs jurisdiction.
ComparisonFrontière AI vs Fireworks AI — EU sovereign alternative
Fireworks AI offers serverless inference and fine-tuning from the US. Frontière AI is the French alternative routing to EU providers, zero prompt storage.
ComparisonFrontière AI vs Venice AI — EU sovereign alternative
Venice AI offers privacy tiers on a subscription from the US. Frontière AI is the French alternative: per-token billing, EU hosting, zero prompt storage.