An independent non-profit bringing allied democracies together to secure strategic autonomy over frontier AI.
Our Mission
The strongest open-weight AI models today are built outside the democratic world. The strongest closed-source models are controlled by US companies, leaving every other allied nation dependent on access that can be restricted or withdrawn. Tertium AI is the response: an independent non-profit to build frontier-class open-weight AI in partnership with the middle powers.
The programme publishes open weights until safety institutes within the international network determine that increasing capability means open release is no longer responsible. At this point weights are still provided to allied governments, regulated sectors, and vetted researchers, but the model is not published openly.
Tertium AI is an independent non-profit, set up to work with allied governments on frontier AI. The larger the coalition, the more the cost can be shared, and the more capable the model every partner receives.
The assumption that an AI company has to both build the model and serve it is now outdated. Tertium AI would only build the models. Partners can run them downstream on their own infrastructure, from large clusters to small on-premise nodes, on terms that are theirs to set.
AI is fast becoming a strategic asset on the order of nuclear technology in the post-war period. Middle powers that depend on others for access to AI risk losing control over their own futures. Working together, we can build the capability, the standards, and the leverage to ensure that future remains in our hands.
