TelkomGroup Unveils Sovereign AI Roadmap at KSTI 2026: AIX Intelligence Exchange, ModelHub Gateway, PQC and Private 5G
The group showcase spans three pillars, build, control and impact, including an agentic intelligence marketplace for cross-institution AI exchange and a sovereign AI gateway with governance, guardrails and audit; AIX and ModelHub are at introduction stage.
TelkomGroup presented its sovereign AI innovation ecosystem at the 2026 National Science and Technology Week (KSTI) at ITS Surabaya, running 10-13 November, with group president director Nanang Hendarno accompanying the higher-education and science minister. The showcase organizes the group's portfolio into three pillars. The build pillar covers advanced connectivity, AI data centers through NeutraDC, and Neutra Compute. The control pillar includes the Agentic Intelligence Exchange (AIX), a marketplace for intelligence exchange between AI systems across institutions, post-quantum cryptography, and ModelHub, a multi-model sovereign AI gateway with governance, guardrails and audit. The impact pillar covers industrial private 5G for smart manufacturing and Padisera for MSMEs, with consumer trials planned for 2027.
The strategic layer is the platform positioning: rather than only building AI infrastructure, Telkom is assembling the middle layer where enterprise AI agents are governed and exchanged, which requires an application and integration ecosystem around it.
AIX and ModelHub are at introduction stage rather than commercial products, and no partner program has been announced. The showcase still marks the direction of the country's largest telecom group: sovereign AI as a governed platform business, with enterprise AI applications as the layer expected to run on top.