Shunya Labs Introduces Enterprise Sovereign AI Platform for Voice

Shunya Labs, a research-driven voice AI company, today announced the launch of its Enterprise Sovereign AI Platform, a foundational AI layer designed for organizations that need to run high-performance AI entirely within their own infrastructure.

The launch comes at a time when enterprises are increasingly re-evaluating cloud-first AI strategies amid growing regulatory pressure from frameworks such as the EU AI Act and India’s DPDP Act. Alongside compliance concerns, organizations are also becoming more cautious about data security, AI data leakage, and the long-term risks of vendor lock-in. As AI systems move from experimental tools to mission-critical infrastructure, organizations are seeking greater control, transparency, and reliability. This shift is driving demand for alternatives to black-box AI services that require sensitive data to be transmitted through third-party cloud providers.

Shunya’s platform enables enterprises to deploy voice AI across private cloud, on-premises data centers, edge environments, and fully air-gapped systems, delivering sub-100ms latency and under-3% word error rates , without any external data dependency. The architecture ensures zero data exfiltration, full jurisdictional control, and complete ownership of AI pipelines, making it suitable for regulated and high-trust use cases across healthcare, BFSI, defense, contact centers, and enterprise operations. Shunya Labs sees growing demand from organizations looking to bring AI workloads in-house as part of long-term compliance and data governance strategies.

Shunya’s platform follows a CPU-first architecture, eliminating dependence on expensive GPU infrastructure and reducing deployment costs by up to 20x. This makes sovereign AI viable not only for large enterprises but also for mid-sized organizations that require privacy, performance, and cost efficiency. The modular system allows enterprises to tailor deployments across public cloud, private cloud, on-prem, edge, or air-gapped environments , all using the same underlying AI stack.

Commenting on the Launch, Ritu Mehrotra, Co-Founder and CEO of Shunya Labs, said: “Most enterprises today don’t actually run AI , they rent it from cloud providers. That works for pilots, but it’s a fragile model for core systems. AI is becoming infrastructure, like databases or operating systems. And just like those, enterprises will eventually demand to own and control it. Shunya exists to make AI something organizations can actually operate themselves , not outsource to a black box.”

Security and compliance are embedded at the infrastructure layer. Shunya’s platform supports TLS encryption in transit, AES-256 encryption at rest, customer-managed keys, and isolated deployments, and is designed to meet enterprise and regulatory standards including HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and India’s DPDP Act.

With its focus on infrastructure-first AI, Shunya Labs positions itself not as an application provider, but as a foundational AI layer for enterprises building long-term, defensible AI capabilities in a regulatory and risk-conscious world.