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Sovereign AI Explained

Sovereign AI is a core principle of EDB Postgres® AI (EDB PG AI): Giving you full control over your data, models, and AI stack — with auditability, security, and trust built in.

Rather than relying on opaque cloud APIs and external data flows, Sovereign AI ensures that your intellectual property, business data, and AI-driven applications stay under your governance — and run on infrastructure you control.

Why it matters

AI is transforming how organizations interact with data and deliver new experiences. But with AI adoption comes real risks:

  • Many public AI APIs are black boxes — you lose control over how your data is used.
  • AI embeddings and vectors often become orphaned in third-party systems.
  • Sensitive data may leave compliance boundaries — creating regulatory risk.
  • AI results may be non-auditable, raising concerns in regulated industries.
  • Application traceability and explainability are often missing.

Sovereign AI answers these challenges:

  • Own your data and embeddings — stored in Postgres and your object storage.
  • Own your models and AI stack — served through Pipelines and Model Serving.
  • Own your Knowledge Bases — fully governable, versioned, and auditable.
  • Own your AI workloads — running in Kubernetes environments you control.
  • Own your Assistant behavior — defined, governed, and observable in Agent Studio.

What is Sovereign AI?

Sovereign AI is an architecture and operating model where:

  • Data stays inside your trust boundaries.
  • AI pipelines are fully transparent and auditable.
  • Model serving happens on infrastructure you manage.
  • Embeddings are stored where you control them (Postgres, object storage).
  • Assistant behavior is governed and versioned.
  • APIs exposed to your users are secured and observable.
  • You can choose whether and how external APIs are involved — no hidden dependencies.

Sovereign AI is a spectrum — not an all-or-nothing choice:

  • Some organizations will want fully self-managed, zero external API architectures.
  • Others will use hybrid models — private Knowledge Bases + public LLMs, carefully governed.
  • EDB PG AI supports this full spectrum — and ensures you are never locked into an external stack.

How EDB PG AI enables Sovereign AI

EDB PG AI is designed from the ground up for Sovereign AI:

  • Data-first architecture — Knowledge starts in your databases and object storage.
  • Vector Engine — Your embeddings live in Postgres or controlled storage.
  • Pipelines — You control every step of the data-to-embedding-to-query pipeline.
  • Model Serving — Models run on your Kubernetes infrastructure, under your governance.
  • Agent Studio — Rulesets, Tools, Structures, and Assistants are all governed assets.
  • Observability — Full audit trails and monitoring of model and Assistant activity.

Key components:

  • Vector Engine — Vector search in your Postgres clusters.
  • Pipelines — Controlled creation of Knowledge Bases and embeddings.
  • Model Serving — Kubernetes-native, GPU-accelerated model inference.
  • Agent Studio — Governed Assistant and Tool development.

You can also selectively integrate external LLM APIs — but with full visibility and choice.

Why Hybrid Manager?

Today, EDB PG AI’s strongest Sovereign AI model is delivered with Hybrid Manager™ (EDB):

See: Hybrid Manager Gen AI Workloads

Hybrid Manager provides the architecture to:

  • Deploy Pipelines and Model Serving on EDB-optimized Kubernetes.
  • Manage Knowledge Bases with full lifecycle control.
  • Monitor and trace all AI activity — at the database, Pipeline, and Assistant levels.
  • Govern model deployment, image provenance, and retriever configurations.
  • Enable secure API access to Assistants and semantic search.
  • Implement fine-grained data residency and trust boundaries.

Full stack control — from your Postgres database → embeddings → Pipelines → model inference → Assistants and APIs — all observable and auditable.

Summary

  • Sovereign AI is about trust, transparency, and control.
  • EDB PG AI gives you a complete stack to implement Sovereign AI — with no lock-in.
  • You choose how open or closed your AI architecture is — but you never lose control of your data.
  • Hybrid Manager provides a production-proven platform for deploying trusted, governed AI in the enterprise.

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