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Sovereignty, models, engineering
Notes on EU AI sovereignty, the open-source model landscape, and how Frontière AI is built.
What is sovereign AI? A guide for Europe
Sovereign AI explained: where the term comes from, its five layers, what Europe is building, what SecNumCloud and C5 prove, and a checklist for companies.
2026-10-19 · 9 min read
EU LLM gateway: how to choose one in 2026
What an EU LLM gateway (European AI gateway) is, ten questions to ask before choosing one, and five European gateways compared from their own pages.
2026-10-19 · 10 min read
Sovereignty & complianceEU-hosted AI models in 2026, model by model
Which open AI models you can call hosted in the EU today — DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen, Mistral, Llama — who runs them, and how to verify an EU hosting claim.
2026-10-19 · 10 min read
Sovereignty & complianceWhat is frontier AI? Definition and EU access
Frontier AI explained: official definitions, EU AI Act and SB 53 thresholds, and how to use frontier-scale models hosted in the EU, under EU jurisdiction.
2026-10-19 · 10 min read
Sovereignty & complianceEuropean inference providers in 2026: the list
Who runs AI models in Europe: OVHcloud, Scaleway, Mistral, IONOS, STACKIT, AKI.IO, Berget, TensorX and more — company, location, prompts and prices, sourced.
2026-10-13 · 11 min read
Models & catalogMistral Large 4: benchmarks, price, API, weights
Mistral Large 4 (preview 2026-10-06): 1T-parameter multimodal MoE, 49B active, 512K context. Benchmarks, API price, open weights date, EU hosting.
2026-10-06 · 7 min read
Sovereignty & complianceSovereign AI: build a cluster or use an API?
Palantir and NVIDIA's sovereign AI reference architecture starts at 16 servers. What building buys you, what it doesn't, and when an EU API is enough.
2026-10-02 · 10 min read
Models & catalogDeepSeek V4.1 Flash: benchmarks, price, API
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (released 2026-09-10): 552B multimodal MoE, 1M context, MIT. What the report claims, what we measured and what it costs.
2026-09-11 · 9 min read
EngineeringBest OpenRouter alternatives in 2026, EU included
OpenRouter alternatives and competitors, compared honestly: Frontière AI, Melious, LowRouter, cortecs, OrcaRouter, Together AI, Groq, Fireworks, Venice.
2026-09-02 · 18 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 · 11 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 · 12 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 · 7 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 · 7 min read
Models & catalogFrench open-source AI: actors and sovereignty
French open-source AI: Mistral AI, Hugging Face, Frontière AI, Fleece AI — and why Europe is building its own AI ecosystem, independent of US giants.
2026-08-27 · 7 min read
EngineeringWhat is an AI API aggregator? A 2026 comparison
What an AI API aggregator does, and how Frontière AI, OpenRouter, Together AI, Groq and Fireworks AI differ on jurisdiction and data residency.
2026-08-26 · 7 min read
Sovereignty & complianceIs OpenAI GDPR-compliant? A guide for EU firms
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 · 7 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 · 6 min read
Models & catalogBest open-source embedding models for RAG in 2026
Dimensions, context, cost: the verified facts that decide which open-source embedding model to index your RAG corpus with — and why to lock it in early.
2026-08-11 · 8 min read
EngineeringSelf-hosting an LLM vs. 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 · 9 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 models to deploy, what they cost, which run on EU sovereign infra.
2026-08-03 · 8 min read
Sovereignty & complianceGDPR vs CLOUD Act: EU cloud hosting isn't enough
An EU data center run by a US company stays within the CLOUD Act's reach. GDPR vs CLOUD Act for cloud and AI hosting, and how to check a provider.
2026-08-03 · 11 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, with fine-tuning and a broad catalog. 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 sells privacy modes from the US, by subscription or per token. Frontière AI is the French alternative: prepaid, EU sovereign models, no prompt stored.
ComparisonFrontière AI vs Melious — two European AI gateways compared
Melious is cheaper and EU-only, for businesses. Frontière AI names the provider of every call and serves individuals too. A sourced, dated comparison.
ComparisonFrontière AI vs LowRouter — two French LLM routers compared
LowRouter bills upstream prices plus a top-up fee and routes to EU and US providers. Frontière AI: a curated catalog, sovereign by default per model.
ComparisonFrontière AI vs OrcaRouter — the European alternative
OrcaRouter bills tokens at list price, with no markup, from Singapore. Frontière AI, a French company, serves EU-hosted models. Price, data and law compared.