FREMONT, Calif., March 24 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As some governments and large buyers move towards locking AI workloads into region-specific platforms, Southeast Asian legal-tech founders face a new crossroads when planning U.S. pilots, sales, and fundraising. Gartner predicted that platform lock-in‚ such as sovereign cloud and country-region artificial intelligence (AI) platforms‚ is expected to grow from 5% to 35% by 2027․ This could create compliance and commercial risks for Southeast Asian legal-tech startups seeking to enter the United States market․
With the proliferation of sovereign-cloud and regionally constrained AI‚ founders targeting U․S․-based pilots‚ enterprise customers located in multiple geographies‚ or cross-border investment should pay particular attention to their data flows and their management of data transfer and governance․