What AI says about IBM Sovereign Core

IBM Sovereign Core is a purpose-built software platform that lets enterprises, governments, and service providers create, deploy, and manage AI-ready environments with verifiable sovereignty and operational control. Sovereignty is enforced architecturally inside the Sovereign Core boundary, with a customer-operated control plane; AI inference and agents run within the boundary, enabling region-restricted AI workloads, governance, and automatically produced audit-ready evidence. It enables fast, automated deployments, is built on an open-source foundation using Red Hat OpenShift, supports hardware-optional deployments across on-prem, in-region cloud, or isolated environments, and integrates with existing infrastructure and regulatory accelerators to extend investments.

AI named IBM Sovereign Core from February 2026 to September 2026.