Provider profiles
One profile per firm: what they do for manufacturers, the evidence they publish, how they engage and when to choose someone else.
1. OpenLazarus
Company-owned AI operating system
Best for: Mid-sized companies that want to own the AI system that runs their operations, with its data, choose their models and keep EU hosting available.
2. Mistral AI
European model vendor
Best for: Companies that want a European model family they can run self-hosted, in a private cloud or on-premises, with a chat assistant for staff.
3. STACKIT AI Model Serving
European cloud provider
Best for: Companies and developers that want open-weight models through an API on a European cloud, with a clear statement that prompts are neither stored nor used for training.
4. OVHcloud AI Endpoints
European cloud provider
Best for: Developers who want open-weight models as an EU-hosted API, with GPU instances available when they need to run models themselves.
5. Aleph Alpha
German model vendor
Best for: German public bodies and enterprises that want specialised “sovereign” language models and forward-deployed engineers from a German company.
6. Cohere
Enterprise model vendor
Best for: Enterprises that want a vendor’s models and its North workspace deployed on-premises or in an isolated private cloud.
7. Microsoft EU Data Boundary
US cloud with EU data commitments
Best for: Companies committed to Microsoft 365, Azure or Dynamics 365 that want customer data stored and processed in the EU and EFTA.