Notes on EU AI sovereignty, the open-source model landscape, and how Frontière is built.
GDPR vs. the CLOUD Act: why your AI provider's region doesn't guarantee compliance
A US company's EU data center doesn't put your prompts outside US jurisdiction. Here's the legal mechanism, why it matters for AI specifically, and how to actually verify a provider's exposure.
2026-08-03 · 5 min read
The best open-source AI models for European businesses in 2026
GLM-5.2, Qwen3.5 397B, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K3, Mistral Small: a working guide to which open-weight models are actually worth deploying, what they cost, and which ones you can run on EU sovereign infrastructure today.
2026-08-03 · 4 min read