VEON and MeetKai are expanding their collaboration to build sovereign, locally deployed AI infrastructure across VEON markets, with the potential to bring in additional strategic partners over time.

MeetKai’s platform is positioned to deliver high-quality large language models at lower development and inference costs through post-training optimization and hardware-aware deployment, applied to VEON deployments.

MeetKai Atlas will provide a sovereign AI platform, local language models, and deployment expertise to enable repeatable, secure rollouts across VEON’s regional footprint.

Disclaimer: Forward-looking statements come with standard risk disclosures and depend on regulatory filings and market conditions.

Explanation of key terms: sovereign AI means data and operations stay within a country, large language models and their deployment considerations, and data residency requirements for storage and processing within a country.

VEON is a NASDAQ-listed digital operator serving nearly 150 million connectivity users and over 140 million digital users across five countries.

VEON provides connectivity and digital services to almost 150 million connectivity users and over 140 million digital users, operating in five countries; the company is listed on NASDAQ.

A memorandum of understanding was signed in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress to formalize the expanded collaboration.

The MOU establishes standardized, secure compute environments that comply with data residency and local governance requirements.

The initiative aims to accelerate secure, standardized deployment of compute environments aligned with data residency and governance, enabling market-specific AI services.

Speakers include Kaan Terzioğlu, VEON Group CEO, and James Kaplan, MeetKai CEO, underscoring sovereign AI aligned with local languages, policy, and monetization across channels.