Introducing IBM Sovereign Core: A new software foundation for sovereignty

IBM Sovereign Core is AI-ready sovereign-by-design software that enables enterprises, governments and service providers to deploy and operate AI-ready environments quickly and at scale-extending existing infrastructure and platform investments, with full control over data, operations and governance.

The way forward: Soverignty as a system property

For years, digital sovereignty discussions focused primarily on data residency. AI has fundamentally changed that model. Modern AI systems operate continuously at runtime, depend on sensitive data and models, and introduce new regulatory obligations around accountability, auditability and governance.

As a result, sovereignty today extends beyond where data lives to include:

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