The Sovereign Stack - ʻĀina Foundry

Description

When Hawaii's data lives on someone else's servers, under someone else's terms, who really owns it? Aina Foundry, the technology arm of Purple Maiʻa, has spent the past year building what we call the Sovereign Stack: open models benchmarked against frontier ones, AI coding agents running on local compute, and solar-powered edge hardware for work that never leaves the island. David and Jaden walk through each layer of the stack, what worked, what didn't, and what it costs, and make the case that data sovereignty isn't just a values statement for Native Hawaiian communities. It's an engineering decision you can make today. You'll leave with a concrete picture of what community-controlled AI infrastructure looks like, layer by layer.