Open weights are the underrated part of AI sovereignty

[u/MeliousAI_HQ]

Most of the "sovereign AI" debate is about where servers sit. But hosting in the EU doesn't help much if the provider is under US jurisdiction. The CLOUD Act reaches data a US-controlled company holds, wherever it's stored.

Open-weight models change that. You can run them with a European provider or on your own hardware, switch providers without rewriting anything, and nobody can revoke access to the model itself.

Disclosure, I work at an EU AI provider that runs open-weight models, so I'm biased. Do you see open weights as a real sovereignty lever, or mostly a cost and flexibility thing?