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Domyn's Case for Enterprise AI Ownership: Data Sovereignty Over Subscription Models

October 9, 2026 at 16:36 EDT

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Domyn Founder and CEO Uljan Sharka is pushing back against the AI-as-a-service model, arguing that businesses in regulated industries should own their AI systems outright rather than rent access from external providers. In a vision gaining traction across European finance, healthcare, and defense sectors, Sharka's Milan-based company is distributing complete AI ownership—models, training recipes, and datasets—so organizations can operate independently on their own infrastructure.

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Own Your AI, Not Rent It

Domyn's pitch to regulated industries: control your models, data, and infrastructure. Inference costs plummet at scale when you self-host.

10B

Domyn-Small Model Parameters (MIT licensed)

400B+

EUROPA Frontier Model for 24 EU Languages

$1.1B

Capital Raised (90% Debt for Colosseum)

Self-Hosting Inference: Cost Comparison at Scale

Key takeaway: At high volume, self-hosted inference can cost 30+ times less than cloud API pricing, shifting spending from subscription OpEx to owned infrastructure CapEx.

✓ Regulated Industries Win

Banks, pharma, defense keep proprietary data in-house. Fine-tuned models on domain data outperform general-purpose alternatives. Compliance and governance stay under internal control.

⚠ Challenges Remain

Requires upfront capital, operational expertise, and team retraining. ROI is deferred. Open-source models need rigorous security and governance to prevent misuse in mission-critical settings.

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