Airrived Launches Sovereign AI Platform, Putting Enterprises Back in Control of Their AI

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 1, 2026--

Airrived, the company behind the enterprise Agentic OS, today announced the launch of its Sovereign AI Platform, giving governments and enterprises a way to run agentic AI entirely inside their own environments — with nothing required to leave the building. Airrived will showcase the platform live at GISEC Global, taking place 16–18 September 2026 at the Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC), Expo City, Dubai.

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As AI adoption accelerates, a harder question is catching up with it: who actually controls the intelligence running your organization?

Sensitive data crosses borders it was never meant to cross. Token costs swing unpredictably from one quarter to the next, turning AI from a fixed cost into an open-ended liability. Mission-critical systems depend on external providers with no guarantee of continuity. And for the world's most regulated institutions, sending data, prompts or intelligence to an externally hosted AI system isn't a risk worth taking — it's simply not an option.

Airrived built its Sovereign AI Platform to remove that trade-off entirely. The launch follows Airrived's #1 overall ranking in the AWS/CTIB Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, a global program backed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), CrowdStrike, CyberE71 and the UAE Cyber Security Council — recognition from some of the industry's most demanding cloud and cybersecurity players that Airrived's approach to agentic AI holds up under serious scrutiny.

Organizations can deploy Airrived on-premises, on private GPU infrastructure, or inside fully air-gapped environments — running their own models or Airrived's models entirely within their own infrastructure.

Data stays inside. Models stay inside. Intelligence stays inside.

“AI sovereignty isn't simply about where your data is stored. It's about who controls the entire intelligence stack,” said Anurag Gurtu, Co-founder and CEO of Airrived. “Enterprises should be able to own their data, choose their models, operate their agents and control their infrastructure — without sacrificing the power of agentic AI. That's what we're delivering.”

An Agentic OS Built for Sovereignty

Airrived delivers an end-to-end Agentic OS: organizations can consume pre-built AI applications or build their own agents and agentic applications, all while keeping full control of the infrastructure underneath. The platform unifies agent orchestration, models, enterprise context, reasoning, governance, observability and AI applications into a single sovereign architecture.

With Airrived, organizations can:

The model is already proven in the region: through its partnership with Wizdom, Airrived's Agentic OS powers agentic AI capabilities natively within Wizdom's own data center infrastructure — sovereignty, not in theory, but in production.

The launch arrives as governments across the Middle East accelerate national AI strategies built on the same principle: sovereign control over data, infrastructure and intelligence. From the UAE's National AI Strategy to similar initiatives across the GCC, the region has made clear that AI adoption must go hand in hand with data sovereignty and national digital resilience. Airrived's platform is built to meet that mandate directly, giving governments and regulated enterprises a way to adopt agentic AI without ceding control of their most sensitive data.

The Next Era of Enterprise AI Is Sovereign

For governments, critical infrastructure operators, financial institutions and other highly regulated enterprises, real AI adoption now demands more than powerful models — it demands control.

Airrived believes the next generation of enterprise AI infrastructure will be defined by choice: where intelligence runs, which models power it, who can access it, and where the data ultimately lives.

“Cloud democratized infrastructure. Generative AI democratized intelligence. The next step is making that intelligence truly yours,” Gurtu added. “The future of enterprise AI will not just be agentic. It will be sovereign.”

Airrived will showcase its Sovereign AI Platform live at GISEC Global, 16–18 September 2026, at the Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC), Expo City, Dubai.

About Airrived

Airrived is the company behind the enterprise Agentic OS designed to make every business user an AI expert. The platform enables organizations to consume, build, deploy, govern and operate AI agents and agentic applications across cybersecurity, IT and enterprise operations. Airrived supports deployments across every enterprise environment — on-premises, private infrastructure and fully air-gapped networks.

Airrived Launches Sovereign AI Platform, Putting Enterprises Back in Control of Their AI

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Filmmaker and drone pilot Manish Maharjan crossed into Nepal from China’s Tibet through Rasuwagadhi, a border crossing closest to where last week's catastrophic flooding began, two days before the disaster. Returning home, little did he know he would be using his professional skills to help with rescue efforts along a route he has known intimately from years of travel for work.

As authorities mobilized dozens of rescue and relief teams, Maharjan joined the Nepal Army’s rescue efforts a day after the flash floods, which have since killed more than 1,000 people and left thousands missing in Nepal and China.

Maharjan has been operating thermal drones to assist rescue teams, focused on locating and finding at least 900 workers who are still missing from 12 hydropower projects buried under mud and debris. About 500 of them are believed to be trapped inside power plant tunnels.

He said drones were effective in locating people who were stranded on hillsides and in isolated places, including caves.

“We used microphone speakers to call out to them. In some places, we even played songs and then waited for a response. That worked in a few cases and helped us locate people,” Maharjan said.

While drones have helped him rescue some stranded people in open areas, the tunnels present an entirely different challenge, he said.

“We found tunnels were filled with mud like toothpaste in a tube,” Maharjan said. “There was no hollow or empty space inside.”

The Aug. 26 flash floods started after a glacial collapse high in the Himalayan region. Scientists who studied satellite images said bedrock underneath a glacier high in the Himalayan region had collapsed, taking part of the glacier with it. The rockfall was so extreme that it registered as a magnitude 5.2 seismic event.

The rocks and melted water then swelled the rivers in the valleys below, causing a torrent of water in Tibet and Nepal and causing widespread damage to critical infrastructure, including hydropower plants, roads, buildings and bridges in the region.

Some workers in the power plant tunnels managed to call for help when the disaster struck, and others who managed to flee reported their colleagues were still in the tunnels, according to Mohan Kumar Dangi, president of the Independent Power Producers’ Association. It was unclear whether rescuers have had any contact with the trapped workers since the initial calls for help.

As time slips away, rescuers are finding it increasingly difficult to locate these missing people. Experts say the first 72 hours are critical as the chances of survival drop without access to clean water. Access to breathable air is another key to survival.

Maharjan said the tunnel searches were challenging because of their difficult access and the absence of any empty space.

“I can only fly drones in tunnels that are long and straight,” he said. “Once there are bends, turns or zigzags, it becomes much harder to operate and search effectively.”

At the Rasuwagadhi hydropower project, Maharjan managed to send a drone to search deep inside and all the way to the end of the tunnel but found no sign of any life.

“We checked repeatedly but it was filled with mud and debris,” he said. “Looking at it, I could only imagine the force of the flood.”

Hussain reported from New Delhi.

This photo provided by the Nepal Army, shows Nepal army soldiers undertake rescue operation at the site of a hydropower project in Upper Trishuli, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (Nepal Army via AP)