Orange has been quick to adopt OpenAI’s latest fine-tunable language models to enable AI-based analytic workloads to be distributed across its multiple national operations without contravening local regulations over privacy and data sovereignty. The operator announced it will incorporate the models into its infrastructure on the same day that OpenAI launched them, claiming this would help it meet growing demands for data sovereignty in many of its markets across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Orange will also lean on Google Cloud as an AI infrastructure partner, following the latter’s initially unexpected collaboration with OpenAI announced earlier in 2025. That was instigated by OpenAI’s compute capacity crunch, resulting from unprecedented demand for and enterprise adoption of its GPT-4 and GPT-4o…