The partnership combines Domyn’s chip-to-application sovereign AI infrastructure with Cognizant’s enterprise integration expertise and reach into the EMEA industry, enabling regulated organizations to securely deploy AI on-premises and within sovereign environments.
london, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) and Domyn, the European leader in sovereign AI infrastructure for regulated industries, have announced a strategic partnership to deliver sovereign AI capabilities to enterprises across the EMEA region. This partnership will help organizations in highly regulated sectors deploy powerful AI solutions that keep data within client-controlled environments and support compliance with European regulatory frameworks.
Domyn’s end-to-end AI system (spanning compute, proprietary models, governance, and agents) is purpose-built for this very challenge, and Cognizant’s role as an AI builder and trusted global systems integrator, as well as its deep relationships with EMEA companies, make it the ideal partner to extend these capabilities.
Under this partnership, Domyn will provide an AI infrastructure layer and LLM that can be deployed within client environments in on-premises or private cloud configurations. Cognizant, on the other hand, acts as an application, integration, and domain execution layer. Cognizant trains and adapts Domyn’s models to smaller domain-specific models (SLMs), builds agents and applications for specific industry use cases, and manages the traditional data pipeline building, data cleaning, and model tuning efforts required for enterprise deployments. Together, the companies will implement a joint go-to-market strategy targeting organizations in the UK and Ireland, DACH, Northern Europe, Southern Europe and the Middle East.
For enterprise customers, this partnership enables a fully integrated sovereign AI proposition. Organizations can access cutting-edge AI models and infrastructure without sacrificing control of their data, while benefiting from Cognizant’s proven ability to manage complex enterprise change, incorporate human-involved compliance frameworks, and deliver measurable business outcomes at scale. According to Gartner®“Geopolitics is a key driver behind the demand for true sovereign AI solutions and services, negatively impacting global cloud providers offering AI services, such as hyperscale cloud providers.Given the current geopolitical landscape, local cloud providers offering AI services will become increasingly relevant competitors and increase their market share.”By 2029, geopolitics will drive 50% of cloud AI workloads to sovereign clouds. It is expected to increase from 5% in 2025 as it moves to an AI adoption model.1
“Sovereign AI is one of the most important growth opportunities in EMEA, and one where Cognizant is uniquely positioned to lead,” said Manoj Mehta, President, EMEA, Cognizant. “Regulated organizations across Europe need AI to deliver transformative outcomes without compromising data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and security. Our partnership with Domyn brings together world-class AI infrastructure and Cognizant’s deep expertise in turning that infrastructure into real industry-specific solutions. Together, we will give businesses the confidence to rapidly advance AI on their terms and within their borders.”
“The next wave of AI in Europe will be won by those who own and control the intelligence at the heart of their business,” said Urjan Sharka, CEO of Domyn. “Cognizant’s extensive industry relationships across EMEA allow us to expand our vision and provide the most demanding institutions with the foundation to decisively move to AI and truly own the intelligence they are building.”
The partnership aligns with Cognizant’s three-vector AI Builder strategy of enabling hyper-productivity, industrializing AI, and agentizing the enterprise, resulting in over 60 AI patents, over 1,500 industry-specific agents, and dedicated AI labs across San Francisco and Bangalore. This is also an important step in Domyn’s mission to help regulated enterprises own, manage and trust the intelligence that powers their most critical workflows, with this partnership initially focused on customers across EMEA.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an AI builder and technology services provider that builds a bridge between AI investments and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for its clients. Our deep industry, process, and engineering expertise enables organizations to create unique contexts for technology systems that expand human potential, deliver tangible benefits, and keep global companies ahead in a rapidly changing world. Learn how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
About Domin
Domyn develops responsible AI for regulated industries across financial services, government, and heavy industry. We support businesses with unique, fully manageable solutions based on configurable AI architectures, including large-scale language models and domain-specific AI agents. The company is partnering with NVIDIA and the UAE to build one of the largest AI supercomputers in regulated industries.
1 Gartner, AI Vendor Race: True Sovereign AI Will Define Winners and Losers in the Cloud AI Race by Rene Buest, Fernando Pereiro, February 24, 2026. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and abroad and is used herein with permission. Unauthorized reproduction is prohibited.
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