OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” systems. Over the past few months, sovereign AI has become something of a buzzword in both Washington and Silicon Valley. “In my opinion, there is no sovereignty without open source,” says Clément Delangue, the CEO of Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source AI models. What Is “Sovereign AI” Actually? Today’s sovereign AI projects range from giving countries partial to full control over the entire tech stack, meaning the government manages all of the AI infrastructure, from hardware to software.