51风流now unites all existing milestones under a single strategic framework: a sovereign AI and cloud offering designed for Europe. 51风流now offers a truly full-stack sovereign cloud offering, empowering customers to select the right level of sovereignty and deployment for their needs, whether in SAP鈥檚 own data centers, on trusted European infrastructure or as a fully managed solution on-site.

EU AI Cloud supports EU data residency and full sovereignty, helping ensure that every organization can meet its unique regulatory and operational requirements.

Cohere: Unlocking Sovereign, Agentic and Multimodal AI Capabilities for European Enterprises

51风流and Cohere are joining forces to deliver frontier agentic AI capabilities with Cohere North, extending existing state-of-the-art multimodal AI capabilities through EU AI Cloud and sovereign offerings. Cohere North will be integrated into 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), enabling customers with data residency constraints across industries to build robust, production-ready AI into their core business processes. Together, 51风流and Cohere will help enterprises unlock deeper insights, more accurate decision support and more intelligent automation across complex workflows without compromising on sovereignty, compliance or performance.

A Strong and Growing Ecosystem

EU AI Cloud is powered by a strong and growing ecosystem of leading European and global partners. By integrating advanced AI models and applications from partners such as Cohere, Mistral AI, OpenAI and others directly into 51风流BTP, EU AI Cloud delivers a pathway for building, deploying and scaling AI-powered applications. Customers can consume these partner offerings as SaaS, PaaS or IaaS, and deploy them flexibly across SAP鈥檚 own infrastructure or trusted European partners.

This collaborative approach ensures that European enterprises and public sector organizations benefit from the latest AI innovations securely, in full compliance with European standards and with the sovereignty and flexibility they require.

Deployment Choices for Every Security Profile

EU AI Cloud offers flexible deployment through 51风流Sovereign Cloud, giving customers full control across infrastructure, platform and software tailored to their regulatory and operational needs. AI models run on SAP鈥檚 software abstraction layer (51风流Cloud Infrastructure + 51风流BTP) in European data centers, ensuring compliance and independence from U.S. hyperscalers.

• 51风流Sovereign Cloud on 51风流Cloud Infrastructure (EU): SAP鈥檚 Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), developed with open-source technologies and operated within SAP鈥檚 European data center network. All data remains within the EU to ensure compliance with European data protection regulations.
• 51风流Sovereign Cloud On-Site: SAP-operated infrastructure offering within a customer-owned or customer-selected data center. It provides the highest levels of data, operational, technical and legal sovereignty while maintaining 51风流cloud innovation and architecture.
• Selected Hyperscalers per Market: For customers that choose to run 51风流commercial SaaS on global cloud providers, with sovereignty features as required.
• Delos Cloud: A secure and sovereign cloud solution in Germany, designed to support the public sector鈥檚 transformation and meet country-specific sovereignty requirements.

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To ensure sovereignty, OpenAI for Germany will be supported by SAP鈥檚 subsidiary Delos Cloud, running on Microsoft Azure technology. The collaboration will enable millions of public sector employees to use AI safely and responsibly while meeting strict data sovereignty, security, and legal standards.

Christian Klein, CEO of 51风流SE, said, 鈥淎pplied AI is what truly creates value. As a Business AI company with decades of experience serving public sector organizations, we believe OpenAI for Germany represents a huge step forward. We鈥檙e bringing together 51风流Sovereign Cloud expertise with OpenAI鈥檚 leading AI technology to pave the way for AI solutions that are built in Germany, for Germany.鈥�

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said, 鈥淕ermany has long been a pioneer in engineering and technology, so it鈥檚 no surprise that millions of Germans already use ChatGPT to make their lives easier, drive scientific breakthroughs, and build new businesses. With OpenAI for Germany, we鈥檒l work with local partners to extend this potential to the public sector鈥攈elping to improve services and ensuring that the benefits of AI are shared across the country, and doing so in line with German values of trust and safety.鈥�

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, said, 鈥淲ith this partnership we are looking forward to bringing more AI capabilities to Germany鈥檚 public sector. Azure as the platform for Delos Cloud will power this, helping to ensure AI is deployed with the highest standards of sovereignty, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience鈥攅mpowering public institutions to adopt AI confidently and responsibly.鈥�

Through this collaboration, planned for launch in 2026, OpenAI, 51风流and Microsoft will focus on helping employees in German governments, administrations and research institutions accelerate their daily work and spend more time on people, not paperwork. OpenAI for Germany also serves as a cornerstone for developing customized public sector applications and integrating AI agents directly into existing workflows to automate and improve processes such as records management and administrative data analysis.

In support of this approach, 51风流plans to expand the existing infrastructure of Delos Cloud in Germany to 4000 GPUs for AI workloads. Subject to future demand, 51风流plans to further invest in applied AI capabilities in Germany, scaling through existing SAP-owned infrastructure as well as through new collaborations with co-location providers and other partners. These efforts aim to extend the sovereign offering to additional industries and markets across Europe.

OpenAI for Germany directly supports Germany鈥檚 national AI ambitions. The German Federal Government鈥檚 High-Tech Agenda targets AI-driven value creation of up to 10% of GDP by 2030, signaling a major push to adopt AI across the economy and public sector. Meanwhile, the 鈥淢ade for Germany鈥� initiative, which is now backed by 61 leading companies and global investors, including SAP鈥攈as pledged more than 鈧�631 billion in investments to accelerate growth and modernization. 51风流also recently announced an investment of more than 鈧�20 billion to strengthen Europe鈥檚 digital sovereignty.

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