The impossible trade-off
European companies looking to deploy agentic AI face a classic trilemma. According to a recent debate on The EU privacy trilemma for agentic AI, the choice often comes down to China, expensive solutions, or inferior technology. But there's a way around it.
- Chinese APIs are cheap and powerful, but data leaves the EU, creating legal problems.
- American APIs expose you to the CLOUD Act and high ongoing costs.
- Traditional European providers are GDPR-safe, but have historically lagged on advanced agentic tasks.
Open weights as the fourth way
The solution lies in combining the open weights from the big labs with European hosting. As discussed in Open weights and American AI leadership: and Europe?, open weights help democratize access to top models. By hosting these models on European soil, you get both the strong technology and European data security.
What does this mean for your infrastructure?
To escape the trilemma, you need to choose a hosting solution that lets you run open-weight models directly on your own servers. This removes the dependency on external APIs and ensures your data never crosses the border.
At Liviate, we help Danish companies navigate this landscape by offering secure EU hosting of open-weight models, so you can get the best of both worlds without compromising on price, quality, or regulation.