Telenor AI Factory and Capgemini to bring sovereign AI closer to Norwegian businesses

Capgemini and Telenor AI Factory are expanding their collaboration through a new partnership agreement aimed at bringing sovereign AI closer to Norwegian businesses.

Telenor AI Factory is strengthening its collaboration with Capgemini through a new go-to-market partnership. The agreement combines Telenor AI Factory’s sovereign, secure and sustainable AI cloud services with Capgemini’s AI and industry expertise to support Norwegian and Nordic companies in implementing sovereign AI solutions.

The partnership builds on an established collaboration. Capgemini supported Telenor AI Factory from the initial business plan through launch within six months, followed by operations and preparations to scale. Capgemini is also a customer of Telenor AI Factory through its BabelSpeak service, delivering real-time, secure translation services in support of the Norwegian Red Cross. This agreement is a natural extension of the ambition to secure successful sovereign AI implementations for Norwegian companies.

– The AI Factory is a cornerstone of Telenor’s strategy to deliver safe and secure services, said Kaaren Hilsen, CEO of Telenor AI Factory. This partnership strengthens our collaboration, and Capgemini, as an AI-driven business and technology transformation partner working with clients across Europe, will play a key role in helping us deliver a truly sovereign value offering to our customers – from idea to implementation on a sovereign AI infrastructure.

– Capgemini sees great potential in this partnership, as it enables us to add a sovereign AI platform to our existing AI capabilities to fully support clients with sensitive and regulated data requirements on their AI journey, said Karl Thomas Reinertsen, Managing Director of Capgemini in Norway.

Together, Telenor AI Factory and Capgemini will support companies across public and private sectors to faster explore and operationalize sovereign AI, from early tests to full scale implementations. The Telenor AI Factory enables companies to securely adopt advanced artificial intelligence without their data leaving Norway.

In combination with Capgemini’s industry expertise and experience in sovereignty, technology and AI, the two companies bring trust and credibility.

Red Hat and Telenor AI Factory Bring Scale, Sovereignty and Control to Production AI

MWC Barcelona – March 2, 2026 — Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Telenor has chosen Red Hat’s cloud-native and AI platforms to power its sovereign AI factory, powered by NVIDIA. This latest Telenor AI Factory offering provides high performance hardware and innovative AI models while maintaining national control over data and processes. With this collaboration, Red Hat and Telenor AI Factory intend to make it faster and easier for organizations to realize AI business value by smoothing the flow from AI blueprints to actual production.

“We are building Telenor AI Factory for flexibility and portability, no lock-in, and Red Hat is a key part of this with its open software and principles”

Kaaren Hilsen
CEO, Telenor AI Factory

Addressing the sovereign AI opportunity 

As the demand for AI grows, Telenor is tapping its decades of experience in operating critical infrastructure to help meet the stringent national and EU requirements around data controls and digital resilience. Telenor AI Factory provides a highly scalable, security-focused infrastructure optimized for AI and other compute-intensive tasks able to process sensitive data in-region. Its architecture of GPUs, low-latency networking and high-performance storage is based on NVIDIA’s reference architecture.

Accelerate time to value with a cloud-native foundation

Telenor AI Factory selected Red Hat OpenShift AI as the core environment for building, training and deploying AI-based agents and applications, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic workflows with LlamaStack. Red Hat Consulting supported Telenor AI Factory in designing and implementing an architecture capable of delivering AI services to external companies, from resource provisioning to multi-tenancy to data sovereignty. OpenShift AI pairs with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus to form the common cloud-native foundation for Telenor AI Factory, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform automates the creation, management and scalability of operations. 

Scaling AI through freedom of choice and operational consistency 

Red Hat’s support for any model, on any hardware, across any environment gives Telenor AI Factory and its customers extensive flexibility to deploy applications and workloads with their preferred tools, libraries and hardware, fulfilling many of the demands for sovereign AI. This choice and control also enables Telenor AI Factory and its customers to optimize performance by improving GPU utilization and potential profitability for demanding AI workloads. 

Additionally, Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support for European Union offers dedicated technical support from within the EU, providing new levels of operational sovereignty when it comes to supporting critical operations. Red Hat’s commitment to delivering enhanced security capabilities on day one as well as its trusted software supply chain approach supports Telenor AI Factory’s ability to handle sensitive workloads. 

By standardizing on Red Hat technologies, Telenor AI Factory and its customers gain a vendor-neutral foundational layer of technology that abstracts away hardware complexity and eases portability. This provides sovereignty across the spectrum of enterprise IT, starting with the transparency and auditability of open source. As the crux of Red Hat’s technology stack, open source software delivers freedom of choice, enabling organizations to see the code, verify it and readily understand it. 

Red Hat OpenShift AI streamlines AI model lifecycles, bringing together data scientists, AI engineers and app developers on the same platform. This promotes collaboration, operational consistency and production scalability. Telenor AI Factory’s IT teams can manage both traditional applications and AI workloads side-by-side, helping avoid operational silos, reduce costs and improve overall agility. 

Telenor’s AI Factory has two sites so far in Norway, running on renewable energy. The Red Hat-based infrastructure hosts several multi-tenant customers, both within the Telenor group and external customers with use cases dealing with sensitive and critical data within the public and private sector. 

Supporting Quotes

“Telenor AI Factory is leading the way in rolling out sovereign cloud for the enterprise and Red Hat is excited to bring our experience of open innovation and flexible platforms to support delivery of these diverse and complex services. With the pace of change in the AI market, Red Hat and Telenor AI Factory are catering for today’s greatest strategic need: The freedom to choose any model, on any accelerator, across any environment. Together we are delivering support for sovereignty, governance and enhanced systems security so that customers can scale AI efforts to drive value, with control and autonomy over data.”

Rich Stephens
Vice president, EMEA Telecommunications, Red Hat

“Telenor is focused on delivering dependable technologies for organizations looking to enhance operational resilience and drive AI-powered innovation. Telenor AI Factory and Red Hat collaborate as one team – we get in rooms together to jointly problem-solve and push forward. We are building Telenor AI Factory for flexibility and portability, no lock-in, and Red Hat is a key part of this with its open software and principles. With Red Hat as the common cloud layer, Telenor AI Factory provides purpose-built, security-focused environments that reduce deployment complexity while optimizing costs so that our customers can build on what already works and own what they create. Red Hat and Telenor AI Factory are transforming isolated GPU silos into a flexible and compliant offering ready for the demands of the Nordic and wider European market.”

Kaaren Hilsen
CEO, Telenor AI Factory

Norsk generativ AI med høyeste datasikkerhet: Ayfie og Telenor AI Factory inngår strategisk partnerskap

Når norske virksomheter skal ta i bruk generativ AI på egne dokumenter, stopper mange ved samme spørsmål: Hvor går dataene – og hvem kan få innsyn? Nå går Ayfie og Telenor AI Factory sammen om en helnorsk løsning som gjør det mulig å søke, oppsummere og hente innsikt fra virksomhetens egne data, med lagring og AI-prosessering i Norge.

Norsk AI Ende til Ende, Dette får kundene

• Data lagres og behandles i Norge – på norsk-eid og -driftet AI-infrastruktur.
• AI-svar med kildehenvisninger – Ayfies RAG-teknologi forankrer svarene i egne dokumenter.
• Rask kobling til eksisterende systemer – uten tunge migrasjoner.
• Valgfrihet på modeller – plattformen er bygget for å kjøre markedsledende språkmodeller sikkert i et lukket miljø.
• Bærekraftig kapasitet – AI-infrastrukturen drives av fornybar energi.

Partnerskapet kombinerer Ayfies AI-plattform for enterprise search og Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) med Telenor AI Factorys suverene AI-skyplattform. Resultatet er at norske virksomheter kan ta i bruk generativ AI på egne data – uten at informasjonen forlater norske grenser.

– Mange ønsker å ta i bruk generativ AI, men får stopp når de møter krav til konfidensialitet, personvern og digital suverenitet. Med Telenor AI Factory får vi et helnorsk fundament som gjør at kundene kan bruke kraften i moderne språkmodeller – på egne data og på norske servere, sier Herman Sjøberg, CEO i Ayfie.

– Telenor AI Factory gir en trygg arena for AI-innovasjon i Norge. Samarbeidet med Ayfie styrker tilbudet vårt til virksomheter som vil bruke AI på egne data med høyeste grad av sikkerhet og kontroll, sier Kaaren Hilsen, CEO i Telenor AI Factory.

For mange virksomheter har «AI i skyen» blitt et styringsspørsmål – ikke bare et IT-spørsmål. Internasjonal dataflyt, nye regulatoriske krav og økt oppmerksomhet rundt utenlandsk jurisdiksjon gjør at flere etterspør løsninger som gir teknisk og juridisk kontroll over data og modeller.

Slik fungerer løsningen

Ayfie kobles til virksomhetens interne datakilder (dokumentarkiv, fagsystemer, e-post, filområder). Data indekseres og gjøres søkbar med tilgangsstyring og logging. Brukerne stiller spørsmål i naturlig språk og får svar forankret i interne kilder (med referanser til underliggende dokumenter). Alt kjøres på Telenor AI Factorys plattform, der data behandles og lagres i Norge.

Særlig relevant for

• Offentlig sektor og kommuner – raskere saksbehandling og bedre gjenfinning i store mengder ustrukturert informasjon.
• Juridiske miljøer – effektiv dokumentgjennomgang under taushetsplikt.
• Helse og omsorg – støtte til kunnskapsarbeid uten å kompromisse på pasientdatasikkerhet.
• Finans, bank og forsikring – compliance, risiko og dokumentasjon på tvers av mange systemer.
• Kritisk infrastruktur, energi og industri – beredskap, robusthet og kontroll over sensitive driftsdata.

Om Ayfie Ayfie er et norsk AI-selskap som har utviklet enterprise search siden 2009, og bruker RAG-teknologi for å gi presise svar basert på virksomhetens egne data. Selskapet er tildelt opphavsmerket «Made in Norway» og er notert på Euronext Growth Oslo (symbol: AIX).

Lanserer den første helnorske AI-plattformen

Nå gjør Telenor og KPMG det lettere å investere i AI uten at data forlater Norge

Ifølge en global topplederundersøkelse oppgir 69 prosent av CEO-er at de planlegger å bruke mellom 10 og 20 prosent av budsjettet på AI i 2026. Fremover skal norske virksomheter kunne ta i bruk avansert kunstig intelligens uten at data flyttes ut av landet.

 – Ambisjonene er der, også i Norge. Men i et mer urolig geopolitisk klima og økende grad av cyberkriminalitet, er behovet stort for å ta AI i bruk på en trygg måte, forteller partner og leder for Technology Enablement i KPMG, Jørn Anders Jenssen.

KPMG skal levere helhetlig implementering av Telenors AI Factory. Jenssen forklarer hvordan:

– Helt konkret, så stiller Telenor med plattformen, mens KPMGs teknologer og fageksperter innen blant annet cyber, økonomi, risikostyring og endringsledelse sikrer at den blir godt tatt i bruk hos bedriftene som ønsker å bruke AI Factory, sier han.

En plattform bygget for kontroll, sikkerhet og skalerbar bruk

AI-infrastrukturen er utviklet for virksomheter med høye krav til datasuverenitet og kontroll. Leder for Telenor AI Factory, Kaaren Hilsen, vil at norske bedrifter skal ta i bruk kunstig intelligens på en trygg og skalerbar måte uten at sensitive data kommer på avveie:

– Vi ønsker å bidra til at AI blir et verktøy for innovasjon samtidig som sikkerhet og styring alltid ivaretas, sier hun.

Telenor AI Factory integreres med økosystemet virksomheten har av datakilder og arbeidsprosesser. På den måten kan virksomheten skalere AI på sensitive data uten migreringer eller store investeringer. Det er viktig at sikkerhet og styring av AI-prosjekter kan håndteres på en måte som tåler revisjon og endrede krav.

Plattformen legger til rette for blant annet:

• at data behandles og lagres i Norge med streng adgangskontroll
• enkel portabilitet for å støtte hybride skymiljøer.
• høyytelses databehandling (GPU-akselerert) samt lagring og CPU for å hoste relevante applikasjoner
• bærekraftig plattform drevet av fornybar energi
• et fundament for å gå fra pilot til produksjon (drift) i større skala

–  En god anledning til å rydde opp

Jørn Anders Jenssen i KPMG sier at altfor mange AI-satsinger i Norge stopper ved enkelttjenester og små eksperimenter. I en fersk KPMG-rapport basert på svar fra 2500 teknologi-ledere, viser at de som lykkes med teknologiinvesteringer, har sentralisert investeringene sine og jobber helthetlig med nesten alle AI-initiativer.

Jenssen sier at lanseringen av den helnorske AI-plattformen er en god anledning til å rydde opp og jobbe mer systematisk med AI. “Flere bedrifter har kommet et stykke på å strukturere arbeidet helhetlig, men teknologisk gjeld, risiko, og en lite strukturert tilnærming bremser dem. Vi håper at vi og Telenor kan hjelpe norske bedrifter med å redesigne prosesser og forretningsmodeller, og bygge styring, sikkerhet og etterlevelse inn i løsninger fra start” deler Jenssen.

Telenor AI Factory and Bineric AI partner to advance Sovereign AI in Norway

Telenor AI Factory is pleased to announce a new partnership with Bineric AI – a Norwegian company at the forefront of privacy-focused AI innovation. Bineric provides access to powerful AI models through AI assistants and developer-friendly APIs. Its solutions power a wide range of applications, including chatbots, coding assistants, content generation tools, and scalable enterprise AI systems.

Through this partnership, Bineric will enable its customers to access and leverage the capabilities of the AI Factory, supporting the broader vision of building a sovereign AI ecosystem.

Bineric offers a powerful suite of AI APIs designed to help developers integrate advanced capabilities such as natural language processing, document conversion, and monitoring directly into their applications. By focusing on Norwegian and Nordic languages, Bineric plays a key role in ensuring that AI innovation and development in the region remains local, trusted, and impactful.

“Each new partnership and marks an exciting step forward for the AI Factory,” said Kaaren Hilsen, CEO of Telenor AI Factory. “Bineric is doing critical work in training models and offering AI APIs focused on privacy and sovereign first AI solutions, ensuring data safety within national borders. They are therefore contributing to the vision that Norway owns the production of its own intelligence. We are proud to support Bineric’s growth with secure, high-performance, and critical infrastructure.”

As a partner of Telenor AI Factory, Bineric will gain access to advance compute power, a secure and sovereign data environment, and cutting-edge AI tooling. This will enable them to train, refine, and deploy models more efficiently, particularly when working with sensitive or regulated data – while offering customers faster and more reliable services.

“At Bineric, we believe that advanced AI should be accessible, usable and privacy respecting.” said Umair Imam, Founder of Bineric. “Partnering with Telenor AI Factory gives us the trusted infrastructure we need to scale – while delivering the reliability, performance, and control our customers expect.”

Bineric’s platform supports a wide and growing set of use cases, from automating document processing to enhancing real-time monitoring systems. With Telenor AI Factory’s support, the company is poised to accelerate innovation while maintaining full control over data privacy, performance, and compliance.

Telenor AI Factory continues to expand its ecosystem of customers and partners, helping businesses across sectors build and scale responsible, high-impact AI solutions. It brings together Telenor’s robust infrastructure, NVIDIA’s AI software stack, and a growing community of collaborators to drive the adoption of sovereign and responsible AI adoption in the Nordics.