Many companies now provide some kind of agentic tooling and expect its use. Some mandate which one, some are open. Most however, use US products and are sending all their data to Anslopic, Microslop, Goolag, ClosedAI, and so on. Not only that, they are expensive af. I've seen bills above 600€ per employee where management didn't even flinch.
There are "inference providers", but every single one on HuggingFace is a US company. There are also the model providers themselves but again, US or Chinese with the exception of Mistral in Europe.
To be able to convince management to use something else, it would have to be cheaper yet "powerful" (DeepSeek fits but is in China), have enough choice (it can't be a single model provider like Mistral, Anslopic, etc.), and be in Europe.
Does such a thing exist?