The freedom to always pick the best model

Vendor lock-in means your set-up gets so tangled up with one supplier that moving becomes a rebuild. With AI that happens fast, because your assistants, prompts and knowledge base are built inside that one supplier’s platform. If the price, the policy or the quality changes there, you have no alternative you can switch on within a week. So the risk is not that the model gets worse, it is that you have nothing to put up against it.

Yes. If a second model is already on, switching is close to instant: we change the connection and your people notice nothing. Adding a supplier that was not on yet takes a few days. No migration is involved and you rebuild nothing, because the model is not where your set-up lives.

They stay where they are. Your assistants, prompts, documents and settings sit on a neutral layer above the model, separate from whichever supplier runs underneath. That is also the answer to the ownership question: what you build is yours and it comes along. Switching model changes who does the computing, not how you work.

The big suppliers and open source side by side, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral. You set per environment, per assistant or per user which model runs, so you choose per task instead of once for everything. Heavy reasoning goes to a large model, simple or sensitive tasks to a European or locally running one.

Not necessarily. The American models lead the field at the moment, so you use those at AIStudio too. European models such as Mistral come in where they fit, for sensitive tasks for instance, or where the origin of your supplier genuinely matters. More important than where your model comes from is whether you can switch the moment you need to. That is a choice you want to keep open, not make once and for all.

Yes. Besides processing inside the EU, AIStudio can run in your own Azure or Google Cloud environment or on your own hardware, with open models that you manage yourself. Then your data never leaves your own walls and your AI keeps working independently of foreign suppliers and governments. The platform itself sits on Dutch servers at BIT in Ede.

Then we switch on a fallback model and the work carries on. There are several plugs in the platform instead of one, so one supplier dropping out is an incident and not a business problem. The same goes for the softer versions: a price rise, a policy change, or a model that suddenly goes offline.