Conference Presentation, Keynote
Keynote by Carla Bünger & Thomas Taroni, CEOs of KORE & Phoenix Technologies | RAISE Summit 2024
- Core Technologies plans to establish a 1,500-square-meter AI innovation center in Basel, Switzerland, scheduled to open in mid-May, located three hours by train from Paris and integrated into a tech cluster with Phoenix Technology.
- The organization intends to expand its platform into industries beyond luxury and media, specifically targeting insurance, health data, financial services, and banking sectors where data sovereignty is critical.
- A primary strategic differentiator is the provision of sovereign cloud environments ensuring data is stored strictly within national borders with no exposure to foreign countries, utilizing IBM Hyper Protect for trusted execution.
- The platform architecture supports the full operational cycle from model training, validation, and fine-tuning to production deployment, designed to handle petabytes of data for mission-critical workloads.
- Clients are expected to prefer training models where data is currently located to avoid heavy data uploads, though the platform will support connecting to hyperscalers for non-critical workloads while keeping critical LLM foundations in sovereign AI clouds.
- Infrastructure requirements anticipate high capacity needs for smart agents and generative AI, with inference clusters running globally and significant energy consumption presenting sustainability challenges that will drive cost efficiency priorities.
- The platform will integrate IBM Watson X and Red Hat OpenShift AI suites, allowing clients to choose from multiple foundation models and utilize independent hardware to prevent technology lock-in.
- Security and governance features include digital watermarking combined with blockchain to verify content origins, access rights enforced at the query moment rather than pre-training, and confidential computing to protect proprietary information.
- The organization expects sovereign AI to address brand identity dilution in the luxury sector caused by fake images and verify content authenticity in the media industry through digital identity solutions.
- Future development includes providing SaaS solutions certified for large corporates, supporting decentralized watermarking, and offering a seamless sandbox environment, while continuing collaborations with Meta, IBM, and Red Hat.