The adesso AI Hub addresses a cross-sector challenge: different business units use various AI models in an uncontrolled manner, lacking shared governance, cost control, or uniform data protection standards. For adesso itself, this situation was also the catalyst for development. The company initially designed and developed the platform for internal use. Today, around 4,800 employees, roughly a third of the workforce, use it and have already processed more than 450 billion tokens. Building on this practical experience, the tried-and-tested AI Hub is now being made available to external customers as well.
The platform serves as a central control layer between the available AI models and the company's applications. Rather than individual teams setting up their own access with various providers independently, the AI Hub consolidates all model access at a single central point. Companies decide which models are authorized for each application area. They maintain real-time visibility into usage and costs and ensure that personal data does not leave the network unencrypted. For developers, there are a few changes: access is via a single API key that integrates seamlessly into existing working environments.
Complete Control Over AI Sovereignty and Data Residency
The platform supports the deployment of AI solutions with varying levels of sovereignty: from fully sovereign GPU clusters in adesso’s data center, through European-hosted partner infrastructures such as STACKIT, to EU-based cloud environments. For each use case, customers can configure the level of data sovereignty that best suits their needs. Depending on the availability model, decision-makers also have access to a CIO dashboard for company-wide transparency on AI projects and expenditures, as well as governance structures and audit trails for compliance with the EU Artificial Intelligence Act.
The adesso AI Hub forms part of adesso SE’s four-tier AI service portfolio. From dedicated GPU infrastructure and a curated model garden to turnkey AI business applications, the central control layer forms the core of the portfolio. The platform is available as a hosted multi-tenant solution with SSO integration or as a dedicated installation in the customer’s own data center. Furthermore, the Hub can be deployed within adesso projects to measure, manage, and transparently account for AI costs on a project-by-project basis.