Definition
Sovereign AI covers national compute, models trained on local languages and data, and rules on where data is stored and processed. NVIDIA describes it as a nation's capability to produce AI using its own infrastructure, data, workforce and business networks.
For companies, the question shows up as data residency, choice of cloud region, reliance on a few foreign model providers, and regulation. Options range from regional hosting of commercial models to running open-weight models in your own data centres.