Xebia and Axelera. AI Partner to Advance Sovereign AI at the Edge 

Bringing European AI Innovation into the Enterprise

Eindhoven, The Netherlands – 12/08/2026 – Xebia, a global AI-first consulting and software engineering company, today announced a strategic collaboration with Axelera AI, a global semiconductor company headquartered in Eindhoven.

Axelera AI develops purpose-built hardware and software for high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference. Its technology enables organizations to run demanding AI workloads closer to where data is generated, from edge devices to enterprise infrastructure.

The collaboration combines Axelera AI's European-designed AI acceleration technology with Xebia's expertise in AI consulting, software and AI engineering, solution design, integration, implementation, and managed services.

Together, the companies aim to turn advanced AI technology into practical, production-ready solutions for enterprise customers.

Expanding Xebia's Sovereign AI Capabilities 

As AI becomes increasingly business-critical, organizations are looking for greater choice and control over their data, models, and underlying infrastructure.

The collaboration with Axelera AI strengthens Xebia's Sovereign AI capabilities by adding a European-developed AI compute option to its broader technology ecosystem.

For customers, this creates additional architectural choices across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. This is particularly relevant where data sovereignty, latency, energy efficiency, infrastructure control, or local processing are important requirements.

Sovereign AI is ultimately about giving organizations meaningful choices: where their data lives, where their AI runs, and which technologies they depend on. Axelera AI is an exciting European technology company originating right here in Eindhoven. By combining their AI acceleration technology with Xebia's engineering and enterprise delivery capabilities, we can help customers turn European AI innovation into real business value. 

Rob Dielemans

Managing Director Xebia Benelux

Bringing AI to the Edge, Across Industries 

A key area of the collaboration will be the development of AI use cases at the edge.

Across industries, many valuable AI applications originate where the data itself is created: computer vision for quality inspection on the factory floor, shelf monitoring and in-store analytics in retail, image and sensor analysis in scientific research and healthcare, anomaly detection in logistics and energy networks, and process optimization, predictive applications, and intelligent automation more broadly.

Running AI inference closer to the machines, cameras, sensors, instruments, and processes that generate the data can reduce latency and the need to continuously transfer large amounts of operational data to external cloud environments.

By combining Axelera AI's technology with Xebia's industry, data, AI, and software engineering expertise, the companies will explore how these use cases can move from experimentation to scalable production solutions.

This gives Xebia another technology option for customers looking to bring intelligence closer to their operations while maintaining greater control over their data and infrastructure.

From Partnership to Production 

The partnership is designed around practical execution. Xebia and Axelera AI will go to market together on shared customer opportunities, pairing Axelera AI's hardware and Voyager toolkit with Xebia's AI consulting and engineering teams. Xebia engineers will be trained directly on Axelera AI's platform, building hands-on expertise that feeds into reusable reference architectures, starting with the edge use cases outlined above, that Xebia can deploy repeatedly for enterprise customers.

Enterprise and industrial customers need more than powerful AI technology. They need the expertise to integrate it into real environments and turn it into measurable outcomes. Xebia brings deep AI, software engineering, and enterprise delivery capabilities to that challenge. Together, we can accelerate the adoption of high-performance, energy-efficient AI from the enterprise to the edge.

Fabrizio Del Maffeo

CEO and Co-Founder, Axelera AI

About Xebia 

Xebia is a global AI-first consulting and software engineering company that helps organizations turn technology strategy into production-ready solutions. Xebia combines expertise in artificial intelligence, data, cloud, software engineering, automation, and digital products with deep engineering capabilities and an international technology partner ecosystem.

Through its Sovereign AI capabilities, Xebia helps organizations design, build, deploy, and operate AI systems with greater control over their data, models, infrastructure, and governance.