A Sovereign AI tender win in Brazil and the first national-scale AI factory in Ukraine open a six-country rollout with SERPRO, VEON and Kyivstar
LOS ANGELES and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MeetKai today announced a six-country rollout of its sovereign AI stack, built on NVIDIA AI infrastructure, across Brazil, Ukraine, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh, six countries 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, working with SERPRO; Meetkai working with VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) and its operators in the other five markets, beginning with Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV) the leading telecommunications and digital services provider in Ukraine.
MeetKai builds its stack on NVIDIA at every layer. Its national language models are trained, fine-tuned and served on NVIDIA accelerated computing. Its sovereign AI platform runs on NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA networking and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. Its AI factory reference design for sovereign sites is specified on NVIDIA infrastructure. One platform, MK-A1 SOVIA, across every market means a model built for one country and a deployment pattern proven at one site can both 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. "That is a hard thing to build once and a very hard thing to build six times. Building on NVIDIA turns it into a repeatable design: the same accelerated computing under every site, our platform and national models on top. Ukraine will have AI it fully controls, Brazil takes the same approach into Latin America on the back of our sovereign AI win there, and we will replicate it in every market in between."
MeetKai and Kyivstar, VEON's majority owned subsidiary and leading Ukrainian digital operator, will build a sovereign AI data center in Ukraine, the first national-scale AI factory in the country, with first capacity planned to come online in 2027. The design of the facility 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, 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.
Across VEON's five markets, 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 followed by Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh, with each site operated by MeetKai together with VEON's local operator. In every market, MeetKai and its operating partners train local engineers to run and extend the sites, so AI skills diffuse into each country's workforce and stay there.
"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 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. It will deploy the platform and locally trained models on NVIDIA accelerated computing in-country, including a sovereign coding agent for secure workflows, now launching with SERPRO.
The Brazilian partnership opens one of the Western hemisphere's largest regulated markets. Brazil's banks, insurers, energy companies and state-owned enterprises carry workloads their regulators expect to stay secure under Brazilian control, and SERPRO, the federal government's own IT company, operates many of the systems much of that economy already runs on. The air-gapped platform Ukraine's ministries and banks can use serves the same need in Brazil: institutions train, fine-tune and run AI on their own data, in-country. And this sovereignty is unlocked on NVIDIA accelerated computing.
MeetKai, which is also an NVIDIA Inception member, is expanding its work in Egypt with Smart Africa, building its AI stack on NVIDIA technology as part of its plans for the market. The company is among a growing group of AI innovators using NVIDIA technology to build and scale across Africa.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the planned deployment of MeetKai's sovereign AI platform and locally trained models in Brazil, Ukraine, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh; the construction, equipping, expansion and operation of AI data centers, including the planned facility in Ukraine and its expected timeline; expected demand from public-sector and enterprise customers; and the expected benefits of the collaborations described. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks relating to the negotiation and completion of definitive agreements, the timing and completion of infrastructure projects, the availability of hardware, power and financing, regulatory approvals and export controls, political and security conditions in the markets described, and the performance of counterparties. Nothing in this press release is a guarantee of future results. Except as required by law, the companies undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement. Statements concerning VEON, Kyivstar or NVIDIA are subject to those companies' own public disclosures and risk factors.
About MeetKai
MeetKai is a sovereign AI company that builds and operates national AI platforms for governments and telecommunications operators.
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