Tech sovereignty

Technology

October 7, 2026 · 8 min

Sovereign AI: what it means and which open models exist

Sovereignty in artificial intelligence does not mean building everything at home: it means being able to decide. Open-weight models already solve the model layer. The missing layer is electrical, and that layer is decided substation by substation.

Technology

October 6, 2026 · 7 min

Spanish-language models and the case of Mexico: ALIA, Latam-GPT and Coatlicue

Spain has already published a public Spanish-language model under an open licence. Latin America has its own, built on a Meta model. Mexico has a plan, a supercomputer on the way and one published model, fine-tuned on a French one. The constraint that decides everything is a different one: megawatts.

Technology

October 5, 2026 · 6 min

China: 41% of downloads and a question of trust

The world's top-rated open models are Chinese, and their licences carry more conditions with each release. They run without sending data to anyone. The question for a Bajío exporter is not technical: it is what the customer will say.

Technology

October 5, 2026 · 6 min

United States: open weights, closed flagships

Google, OpenAI and IBM publish mid-sized models under the Apache 2.0 licence, at a size that fits on one server. The frontier model stays closed. For an industrial plant, that mid-sized range is exactly the one that is useful.

Technology

October 4, 2026 · 6 min

Mistral: Europe's champion and the fine print in its licences

Mistral did what Aleph Alpha stopped doing: it kept training models and built its own compute. EUR 3 billion in September, a 1.4 GW campus on the way and three types of licence that are worth telling apart.

Technology

October 3, 2026 · 7 min

Aleph Alpha: Germany's sovereign AI lesson

Seven years, a round announced as more than USD 500 million, a change of strategy and a merger with Canada's Cohere. On 3 October it released Kolibri-1, its first open-weight language model under Apache 2.0.

Electromobility

September 25, 2026 · 4 min

The Bajío and sovereignty: where the value stays

Guanajuato leads Mexico's electric vehicle supply base. In electromobility, sovereignty is measured by how much of the vehicle's value, know-how and data stays in the country.