air-gapped deployment

Cohere North 2 gives agents memory that persists across sessions, but Cohere has published no scope, retention or deletion terms for it. The token caps in North Admin are usable now; memory should wait for written answers.

Self-hosted IBM Bob swaps SaaS Bob's Claude, Mistral and Granite routing for one local model, Nemotron or Laguna. IBM has published no evals, GPU sizing or price for it.

Cursor cannot be self-hosted and every request is built on its servers. Standardise on Copilot Business, run Claude Code through your own cloud account, and reserve Tabnine or Cline for air-gapped shops.

For air-gapped LLMs, run Apache-2.0 weights like gpt-oss-120b on vLLM, via Red Hat AI if you need a vendor. NVIDIA AI Enterprise's per-GPU fee is the loser, and an 8-GPU air-gapped node costs 30-40x the hosted API at 1B tokens a month, and even two GPUs cost about 9x.

Enterprises blocked from the public Hugging Face Hub do not need a different hub — they need a caching registry in front of the one they already use. JFrog if you run Artifactory, Cloudsmith if you don't, and skip Sonatype Nexus until it supports Xet.

SR 11-7 was rescinded in April 2026 and the EU high-risk deadline slipped to December 2027. Neither buys you time: Annex IV still wants signed test reports, and only Domino, DataRobot and Dataiku ship an approval workflow that can produce one.

Nvidia licensed Poolside's Model Factory for $6 billion and made offers to 109 of its engineers without buying the company — so a standard change-of-control, assignment or notification clause never fires. Here are the three triggers to write into your next renewal.