--- title: Eclipse wants companies to be free to switch AI... description: The Eclipse Foundation has launched the Sovereign AI Foundation, a vendor-neutral group of 17 founding organizations including Bosch, Red Hat, Ericsson,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/eclipse-wants-companies-to-be-free-to-switch-ai-providers-today-doing-so-can-mean-a-costly-rebuild-viyk5ara7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Eclipse wants companies to be free to switch AI providers. Today, doing so can mean a costly rebuild. | daily.dev og:description: The Eclipse Foundation has launched the Sovereign AI Foundation, a vendor-neutral group of 17 founding organizations including Bosch, Red Hat, Ericsson,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/eclipse-wants-companies-to-be-free-to-switch-ai-providers-today-doing-so-can-mean-a-costly-rebuild-viyk5ara7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ViYk5Ara7.png og:image:alt: Eclipse wants companies to be free to switch AI providers. Today, doing so can mean a costly rebuild. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Eclipse wants companies to be free to switch AI providers. Today, doing so can mean a costly rebuild. **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Eclipse Foundation has launched the Sovereign AI Foundation, a vendor-neutral group of 17 founding organizations including Bosch, Red Hat, Ericsson, Thales, Infosys, and the University of York, aimed at helping enterprises avoid AI vendor lock-in. Executive director Mike Milinkovich frames the effort around three intertwined issues: efficiency (rebuilding workloads to switch models), security (visibility into data and risk), and lock-in/resilience (dependence on a single provider). The group will focus on mapping real-world use cases, assessing technology trends, producing practical resources, building a peer community, and translating EU-funded research into actionable guidance. Milinkovich stresses the initiative is not aimed at any single country or provider, emphasizing modularity - keeping models, infrastructure, and applications separable - as the common approach among early use cases like Eclipse Theia AI, Open VSX Registry, Eurotech's edge AI work, and Eclipse LMOS. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the Sovereign AI Foundation launched by the Eclipse Foundation? It is a vendor-neutral initiative launched by the Eclipse Foundation with 17 founding organizations, including Bosch, Red Hat, Ericsson, Thales, Infosys, and the University of York, to help organizations avoid AI vendor lock-in. It focuses on mapping real-world use cases, assessing AI technology trends, producing practical guidance, building a peer community, and turning EU-funded research into actionable insights around data control, cyber safety, and lock-in risk. _Teams weighing AI vendor lock-in risks can follow foundation formation and enterprise AI strategy news on daily.dev._ ### Why is switching AI providers costly for enterprises? Switching AI providers is costly because it typically requires rebuilding workloads, moving data, untangling integrations, documenting systems after the fact, and navigating compliance delays and operational disruption. According to Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich, the deeper an organization's AI dependency, the greater the risk, since higher switching costs and rebuilt integrations make changing providers difficult even when better or cheaper models become available. _Engineers architecting for provider flexibility can track modularity practices and AI infrastructure trends on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Essential Role of Open Source in Sovereign AI](https://daily.dev/posts/the-essential-role-of-open-source-in-sovereign-ai-jz1vev1r1) · Linux Foundation · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Establishing AI and data sovereignty in the age of autonomous systems](https://daily.dev/posts/establishing-ai-and-data-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-autonomous-systems-fld7bjpsl) · MIT Technology Review · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Future of AI: From Enterprise Adoption to Open Source Sovereignty](https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-ai-from-enterprise-adoption-to-open-source-sovereignty-b3fsaq2jb) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Sovereign Compute Paradigm Shifts That Are Redefining Global AI](https://daily.dev/posts/the-sovereign-compute-paradigm-shifts-that-are-redefining-global-ai-r5gdg5zi1) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [OpenSearch Software Foundation and Linux Foundation Research Report Finds Organizations Seek Neutral Data Infrastructure as Global AI Implementation Peaks](https://daily.dev/posts/opensearch-software-foundation-and-linux-foundation-research-report-finds-organizations-seek-neutral-z3k5bbryn) · OpenSearch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#ai-governance](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-governance), [#ai-infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-infrastructure) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/eclipse-wants-companies-to-be-free-to-switch-ai-providers-today-doing-so-can-mean-a-costly-rebuild-viyk5ara7) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Eclipse wants companies to be free to switch AI providers. 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