Sovereign AI, defined.

Sovereign AI is the practice of running AI systems — models, data, and compute — within the legal and physical boundaries of a chosen jurisdiction, so that data sovereignty, regulatory accountability, and supply-chain control remain under that jurisdiction's authority.

A Trust Receipt is AgentAnywhere's signed implementation of the open AgentBOM format — a cryptographically signed, regulator-verifiable record of one AI execution (region, model, data sources, policy decisions, redactions, cost, carbon) signed with Ed25519. Anyone with the issuer's published public key can verify a receipt offline, without access to the platform that produced it.

Data residency for AI is the requirement that every byte processed by an AI system — training data, retrieval corpora, prompts, embeddings, outputs, and audit logs — remains within a specified legal jurisdiction for the entire lifecycle of the request.

An AgentBOM (Agent Bill of Materials) is a cryptographically verifiable manifest of every component used in an AI agent execution — model and weights, prompt template, system message, toolset, retrieval corpora, fine-tune lineage, and outbound dependencies. It is to agentic AI what an SBOM is to software supply chains.

Agentic AI describes AI systems that pursue goals through multi-step reasoning, tool use, memory, and autonomous action — as opposed to single-shot prompt-response systems. An agent can plan, call APIs, modify state, and adapt mid-task without a human in every loop.