MeetKai Announces Six-Country Sovereign AI Rollout Built on NVIDIA

MeetKai announced on September 25, 2026, a six-country rollout of its sovereign AI stack built on NVIDIA AI infrastructure, spanning Brazil, Ukraine, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh, which the company said are home to more than 700 million people.

In each country, MeetKai’s sovereign AI platform and locally trained models will run on NVIDIA accelerated computing. MeetKai Brasil is working with SERPRO, the Brazilian federal government’s own IT company, while MeetKai is working with VEON and its operators in the other five markets, beginning with Kyivstar, which the announcement describes as VEON’s majority-owned subsidiary and the leading telecommunications and digital services provider in Ukraine.

A Stack Specified on NVIDIA

MeetKai builds its stack on NVIDIA at every layer. Its national language models are trained, fine-tuned and served on NVIDIA accelerated computing, and the sovereign AI platform runs on NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA networking and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. The company’s AI factory reference design for sovereign sites is specified on NVIDIA infrastructure.

MeetKai said one platform, MK-A1 SOVIA, runs across every market, meaning a model built for one country and a deployment pattern proven at one site can be repeated at the next with no dependency on foreign cloud services. “Sovereign AI only works when the entire AI stack, infrastructure to models, sits inside the country,” said James Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of MeetKai. Kaplan said building on NVIDIA turns that into a repeatable design, with the same accelerated computing under every site and MeetKai’s platform and national models on top.

Planned AI Factory in Ukraine

MeetKai and Kyivstar will build a sovereign AI data center in Ukraine, described in the announcement as the first national-scale AI factory in the country, with first capacity planned to come online in 2027. The facility’s design is expected to expand from 15 to 100 MW as demand from the public sector and Ukrainian industry grows. It will be equipped with the latest NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA reference architecture and will run MeetKai’s sovereign AI platform, including Ukrainian-language models trained and hosted inside Ukraine.

MeetKai and Kyivstar will operate the facility and deliver sovereign compute and AI services to the Ukrainian government, critical infrastructure operators, enterprises and Kyivstar’s own customers. Because the platform is designed to run in isolated environments, the announcement states it is expected that Ukrainian ministries, energy and transport operators, banks and defense-adjacent civil agencies will be able to train, fine-tune and run AI on their own data in fully air-gapped deployments.

VEON Markets and the Brazil Tender

Across VEON’s five markets, which MeetKai said are home to more than 150 million mobile customers and over 225 million digital customers, MeetKai acts as VEON’s AI lab-as-a-service, beginning in Ukraine and followed by Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh. Each site will be operated by MeetKai together with VEON’s local operator, and MeetKai and its operating partners will train local engineers to run and extend the sites in every market.

“Every nation wants AI that runs on its own infrastructure, in its own languages, under its own rules. MeetKai is building its AI platform and national language models on NVIDIA accelerated computing, giving governments and telecom operators a full-stack foundation for AI factories deployed and operated in-country,” said Calista Redmond, VP of Global AI Initiatives at NVIDIA.

In Brazil, MeetKai Brasil won SERPRO’s public tender for the national sovereign AI platform with the highest overall score, the company said. It will deploy the platform and locally trained models on NVIDIA accelerated computing in-country, including a sovereign coding agent for secure workflows that is now launching with SERPRO. The company characterizes Brazil as one of the Western hemisphere’s largest regulated markets, where banks, insurers, energy companies and state-owned enterprises carry workloads their regulators expect to stay secure under Brazilian control.

MeetKai, an NVIDIA Inception member, is also expanding its work in Egypt with Smart Africa, building its AI stack on NVIDIA technology as part of its plans for that market. The announcement’s forward-looking statements note that the plans are subject to risks including the negotiation and completion of definitive agreements, the timing and completion of infrastructure projects, the availability of hardware, power and financing, and regulatory approvals and export controls.