Subj : Nextcloud announces AI as a service collaboration with major prov
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Date : Wed Apr 03 2024 14:15:05

Nextcloud announces AI as a service collaboration with major providers

Date:
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:00:15 +0000

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Nextcloud customers will gain access to upcoming artificial intelligence 
functionality from European hosting companies including IONOS and OVH.

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Nextcloud has announced a collaboration with a number of major European 
players in the cloud storage industry to leverage access to their upcoming 
on-premise  artificial intelligence (AI) as a service features, promising 
GDPR compliance in a cottage industry fraught with privacy concerns. 

Claiming that demand for AI functionality is high amongst its customers, 
OVHClouds AI Product Marketing Manager Germain Masse revealed such 
integrations will be made available later in 2024. 

While Nextcloud customers will have to wait months for the integrations to go 
live, theyll be folded into the latest version of the Nextcloud Assistant, 
available now for users of Nextcloud Hub 7 and available at launch for the 
companys upcoming Hub 8 release, for which they provide no timeframe. AIs 
role in administrating the future 

With Nextcloud concerned that US firms like ChatGPT developer OpenAI have a 
considerable head start over their EU counterparts such as Mistral and Aleph 
Alpha, Masse highlighted the importance of reliable, trustworthy and local AI 
tools and services, that are compliant with European data protection law, 
being made available in the territory. 

Because large language models (LLMs) produced and distributed in the US dont 
have to commit to compliance with laws such as the EUs General Data 
Protection Regulation (GDPR), the present ability for European firms to 
leverage US AI solutions whilst sending and receiving data overseas is 
extremely limited. 

Addressing this problem through homegrown services given that senior 
government figures in Europe believe that artificial intelligence is the next 
step in the administration of the future. 

Nextcloud cites the Minister of Digitisation and Head of the State 
Chancellery of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Dirk Schrdter, as 
saying that such a future will work in an automated, algortihmized, 
cloudified and data-based way, and that to make this vision of the future a 
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