Sovereign AI vs private AI vs sovereign cloud: what is the difference?

Private AI keeps your data in-house, sovereign cloud gives you compliant infrastructure inside a jurisdiction, and sovereign AI adds legal control of the whole model, its inference and its update channel. Each solves a different problem, and buyers routinely confuse them.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/sovereign-ai-vs-private-ai-vs-sovereign-cloud. Mickai is a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System; the Open Audit Record signs every artificial intelligence action before it executes, post-quantum and offline-verifiable. 104 filed UK patent applications, Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618).