Countries are increasing their investment in domestic AI stacks as they look for alternatives to the closed US model, according to Gartner. As a result, Gartner predicts that nations establishing a sovereign AI stack will need at least 1 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) to spend on AI infrastructure by 2029. As non-Western customers change alignment due to concerns of overly Western influences, AI sovereignty will also lead to reduced collaboration and duplication of effort. According to Gartner, this will see 35 per cent of countries locked into region-specific AI platforms using proprietary contextual data by 2027. AI sovereignty refers to the ability of a nation or organisation to independently control how AI is developed, deployed and used related to its geographical boundaries.