Instead of moving data to the model - move the model to the data. Europe's answer to centralised AI, built by E-Group

The dominant model for AI development depends on aggregating data in centralised compute environments. For European organisations operating under GDPR, across national jurisdictions, and on sensitive datasets - health records, critical infrastructure data, financial information - this model is often legally impermissible. Europe needed an alternative: AI at scale without data ever leaving its point of origin, running across a sovereign, multi-provider cloud-edge infrastructure rather than a single hyperscaler.

E-Group's IPCEI-CIS project - FedEU.ai - inverts the conventional AI paradigm. Built on FedX, E-Group's proprietary federated learning platform, it delivers 0% accuracy loss versus central training, 90% energy savings, and a proprietary protocol reducing the environmental footprint of large-scale federated ML by up to 25%. Private data, AI processing, and insight generation are fully decoupled - algorithms travel to data, or models train on encrypted data at compute. E-Group co-leads Workstream 3 (WS3) and its AI Cluster within IPCEI-CIS, which involves 19 enterprises across 7 member states and €3.5 billion in total EU funding. Lead researcher: Dr. Péter Antal. E-Group also contributed to ICRA v2.0 - the second version of the IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture. The Ambiti8n pilot - eight partners, four countries, eleven components, built in four months - was demonstrated live at the 8ra Annual Summit in Rotterdam (March 2026) to approximately 500 European stakeholders including European Commission representatives. It ran a sleep apnoea detection application federated across hospital sites in Italy and Poland: patient data never moved; only gradients did.

FedEU.ai is no longer a pilot. Presented at Rotterdam to European Commission representatives and Member State delegations, it is positioned in the CISERO exploitation roadmap with ready-to-scale validation targeted by end of 2026. Within 30 days of appearing at the IPCEI Forum, E-Group's FedLab-X product attracted business interest from nearly 30 major companies. Ambiti8n is now publicly established as the flagship integration pilot of IPCEI-CIS - recognised across the programme as evidence that European federated infrastructure can reach production-readiness within the lifecycle of a strategic initiative.