Beyond Peak Data: The Rise of Compound AI Systems. A Forbes Technology Council Post by Milos Rusic

How can financial service providers use a private AI cloud to move from pure AI consumer to producer of their own intelligence? That move is a strategic decision, caught between dependence on the large AI providers and self-determination. But no single vendor delivers the full stack alone, which is why HPE, NVIDIA, deepset, QuantPi and secunet are pooling their capabilities into a shared platform rather than competing as individual vendors.

Independent research reinforces a growing enterprise trend: sovereignty is increasingly defined by flexibility, control, and architectural choice, not isolation.

A model for scaling AI in regulated environments without trading away control. First deployment: AI@EC, the European Commission's sovereign AI platform