Bringing European AI Models to Global Audiences
Today we’re proud to announce that Perplexity will integrate sovereign European AI models into our answer engine, bringing locally-optimized, culturally-aware AI to users worldwide while supporting Europe’s digital sovereignty initiatives.
This integration is more than just a technical advancement—it’s a step toward ensuring that AI reflects the rich linguistic diversity and cultural nuances that make our global community stronger. As part of NVIDIA’s groundbreaking work with European model builders and cloud providers, these sovereign models will soon be available through Perplexity, optimized with NVIDIA Nemotron techniques and deployed as NVIDIA NIM microservices.
Why European Sovereign AI Matters
Europe’s diversity has always been its superpower, fostering creativity and innovation across 24 official languages and countless cultural contexts. The sovereign AI models we’re integrating reflect this diversity, with specialized models from leading European institutions across France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and more.
These models aren’t just translations—they’re purpose-built to understand the nuances of European languages, cultural contexts, and local knowledge that global models often miss. Whether you’re asking about French literature, German engineering, Italian art, or Nordic sustainability, these models provide insights grounded in authentic European perspectives.
Perplexity’s Role in Europe’s AI Future
At Perplexity, we’ve always believed that accurate, trustworthy information should be accessible to everyone. By integrating these sovereign AI models, we’re ensuring European enterprises, publishers, and organizations have access to AI that truly understands their context and needs.
Technical Excellence Through Partnership
The power behind these sovereign models comes from NVIDIA Nemotron post-training techniques, including neural architecture search, reinforcement learning, and optimization with NVIDIA-curated synthetic data. These optimizations boost performance and reduce costs by generating tokens faster during inference.
The models will run on European AI infrastructure from NVIDIA Cloud Partners, ensuring data stays in Europe while maintaining high performance. Through NVIDIA NIM microservices, developers can deploy these models across various platforms, from data centers to on-premises installations.
A Global Platform for Local Intelligence
What excites us most about our partnership with NVIDIA is how it embodies our core belief: that the best AI systems should be both globally accessible and locally relevant. By bringing European sovereign AI to Perplexity, we’re enriching the knowledge available to our global community.
This integration supports Europe’s vision of digital sovereignty while opening the impact of these models globally. When users worldwide ask questions about European history, culture, business, or technology, they’ll receive answers informed by AI models that truly understand these domains.
Looking Ahead
The first European sovereign AI models are expected to be available through Perplexity later this year. This is just the beginning of a new era in AI—one where global platforms can seamlessly integrate locally-optimized intelligence to serve users better.
As we expand our capabilities and partnerships, we remain committed to our core promise: providing accurate, trustworthy answers to any question, for anyone, anywhere. The integration of European sovereign AI models brings us one step closer to that vision.