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TRACK 1

Sovereign AI

Build AI that you can actually own.

As AI becomes deeply embedded into organizations and everyday life, individuals, mission-driven teams and businesses need the ability to run intelligent systems without handing over all of their data, knowledge and operational context to a third party.

The challenge is to build towards a Sovereign Second Brain — an AI system that can privately understand an individual or organization's knowledge, remember what it learns, reason across that information and safely execute useful tasks.

What could you build?

Think beyond a chatbot. A strong solution could combine open-weight/local models, a personal knowledge base, long-term memory, semantic retrieval, automatic ingestion, agentic tool execution (MCP), and local-first deployment.

  • Open-weight/local models for private inference.
  • A personal or organizational knowledge base.
  • Persistent long-term memory.
  • Semantic, keyword or graph-based retrieval.
  • Automatic ingestion of documents and user-owned data.
  • Connections between people, projects, concepts and decisions.
  • Agentic tool execution through systems such as MCP.
  • Controlled execution where actions can be reviewed and audited.
  • Local-first or self-hosted deployment.

Technologies teams can explore

GBrainObsidianUtopiaGraphitiZepMem0LettaPostgreSQL/pgvectorOllamallama.cppvLLM

Expected direction

Teams should demonstrate a working system where:

Data → Knowledge → Memory → Reasoning → Action

The winning project should feel like the beginning of an AI that an individual or organization could actually own.

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