I3k

I3k Technologies develops AI infrastructure designed specifically for organizations in regulated European sectors that require full data sovereignty and compliance with EU regulations. Founded in 2015 and based in Milan, I3k focuses on building AI tools from the ground up in Europe, targeting organizations that cannot store their data on US-based cloud services. The company’s core offerings are RAG Enterprise and EuLLM, which together provide an integrated platform for on-premise document intelligence and vertical AI model development.

RAG Enterprise is an on-premise system for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enabling secure document intelligence where documents never leave the organization's servers. 0 license, supports uploading and querying documents in PDF, DOCX, and TXT formats with OCR capabilities (using Tika and PyMuPDF), multi-user authentication with JWT, vector search via Qdrant, local LLM integration through Ollama (supporting models such as Llama and Mistral), and deployment via Docker Compose. An admin panel and React-based UI are included. 0 Edition, under a proprietary license, adds features such as cross-encoder re-ranking, hybrid search (combining BM25, vector, and RRF), multi-query retrieval, integrated analytics dashboard, persistent chat history (SQLite), a modern chat UI, multilingual reranker (BGE-M3), and full offline mode.

EuLLM is an open-source platform for developing and deploying sovereign European large language models. It features a high-performance Rust inference engine, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and EU-only deployment with zero telemetry outside the EU. The platform includes a model distillation pipeline (Forge) for efficient fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), automatic conversion to optimized GGUF format, dataset building from enterprise documents, and automated benchmarking. The EU-hosted Hub registry provides model cataloging, versioning, traceability, and compliance with the EU AI Act, including risk classification and training data provenance.

I3k also offers consulting and custom development for regulated sectors, focusing on on-premise AI deployments, privacy by design, legacy system integration, and compliance with the EU AI Act and GDPR. The company provides migration services from US-based SaaS AI solutions to EU-sovereign on-premise alternatives. cpp. 0) and proprietary licensing models are available, depending on the product and edition.