Successful sovereign AI Made in Europe

Noxtua initiates Germany's first sovereign Legal AI Factory with IONOS and opens new location in Munich

Alliance for Germany's first sovereign AI Factory for the high-compliance legal sector with its high security requirements
Cooperation between Europe's sovereign Legal AI Noxtua and Europe's leading digitalization partner IONOS
Strengthening Bavaria as a business and innovation location with new Legal AI Factory and new Noxtua location in Munich

BERLIN/MUNICH, September 24, 2025 – Germany's first Legal AI Factory is being established in Munich in a collaboration between Europe's sovereign Legal AI Noxtua and Europe's leading digitalization partner IONOS. The two technology companies, which are already collaborating on a high-performance data center in Berlin, are thus strengthening their strategic partnership. The new Legal AI Factory will also provide important impetus for the development of secure, sovereign and powerful AI in Germany.

In addition, Noxtua is soon opening a new office in Munich after announcing Europe's largest financing round for Legal AI earlier this year. Founded in 2017 from AI research at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the company chose the Bavarian capital because it is a central European AI hub where tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and, most recently, OpenAI have opened locations. These steps towards trustworthy AI "Made in Germany" will strengthen Bavaria's position as a center of business and innovation.

Sovereign AI made in Germany as a recipe for success

"With the opening of Germany's first sovereign Legal AI Factory and our new office in Munich, we at Noxtua are taking two giant steps forward at once. At the same time, we are strengthening the German and European AI ecosystem and demonstrating that sovereign European AI is the way forward. Digital sovereignty is becoming increasingly important for Europe, especially in sensitive areas such as the legal system, and we must respond with concrete technical solutions," emphasizes Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk (CEO & Co-Founder Noxtua).

"Geopolitical developments have made it clear how important European sovereignty is in key technologies such as AI and the cloud," says Achim Weiß (CEO of IONOS). "I am delighted that IONOS, Europe's leading digitalization partner, is supporting Noxtua in setting up the Legal AI Factory. In such a sensitive area in particular, Europe cannot afford to be dependent on external influences."

"Neither clients of law firms nor parties before courts and authorities can accept that their data is uploaded in non-anonymized form to AI and cloud systems where it cannot be ruled out that third parties may access their data via the operators of these systems. The Legal AI Factory of Noxtua and IONOS in Munich is the opposite of this and therefore the right home for our legal AI Beck-Noxtua. The opening of the Noxtua office in Munich fits perfectly into this picture and further strengthens the partnership between Beck and Noxtua," emphasizes Prof. Dr. Klaus Weber (member of the Executive Board at C.H.Beck).

Sovereign data center for sovereign Legal AI

Cloud provider IONOS will operate Germany's first Legal AI Factory. The leading technology company has announced that it will be one of the first German cloud providers to use the NVIDIA DGX H200 supercomputing system in ISO-certified data centers in Germany, with Noxtua being one of the first users. The IONOS Group's Munich data center, which will complement Noxtua's Berlin location in the future, also meets the high security requirements applicable to highly regulated sectors such as the legal sector.

The sovereign Legal AI Factory is based on the latest NVIDIA DGX B300 systems with Blackwell architecture. It features high computing power and efficiency thanks to powerful GPUs with 208 billion transistors, accelerated inference and training of large AI models using second-generation Transformer engines, and increased security standards (NVIDIA Confidential Computing; TEE-I/O-capable). This makes the new Legal AI Factory one of the most technologically advanced products currently available on the market.

Through this flagship project, the two technology companies are strengthening their strategic partnership for sovereign AI, setting new standards for AI development and application, and creating a scalable foundation for future expansion and the development of a specialized AI ecosystem.

European center for AI and lawyers

Noxtua's new office in Munich has been chosen for strategic reasons: thanks to strong political support, among other factors, the Bavarian capital has become one of Europe's centers for AI and high-tech. This is why international technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and, most recently, OpenAI have chosen to open offices here. Munich is also one of the centers for lawyers in Germany and Europe, with a high density of commercial law firms and corporate headquarters, as well as more than 24,000 members of the local bar association. In addition, the planned new Noxtua office in Munich also highlights the close cooperation with the traditional publishing house C.H.BECK, which is more than 260 years old and is also based in Munich. C.H.BECK and Noxtua are jointly developing the Legal AI Workspace Beck-Noxtua, which exclusively integrates the contents of the leading legal database beck-online and will be available for subscription from fall 2025.

To position itself more strongly as a genuinely European AI company and promote Europe's sovereignty, the AI company, which was originally founded in Berlin in 2017 based on research at Oxford University and Imperial College London, has also opened additional locations in Paris and Zagreb this year.

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About Noxtua

Noxtua is Europe's sovereign Legal AI. This legally competent AI covers the entire spectrum of legal work – from information gathering (“research”) and analysis of complex issues (‘understanding’) to document creation (“drafting”). The legally compliant AI meets the professional, criminal, and data protection requirements for lawyers (Section 203 German Criminal Code, Section 43e German Federal Code for Lawyers) and is certified according to ISO 27001, 9001, 27018, 27017, 42001, and BSI C5. Developed in collaboration with Germany's leading legal publishing house, Legal AI Workspace Beck-Noxtua is the only AI system that exclusively integrates the legal content of C.H.Beck, combined with content from Erich Schmidt Verlag that is particularly relevant to civil service law.

Founded in 2017 in the German capital as a result of a research project by Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk and Professor Dr. Michael Huth at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the legal tech company has many years of experience in developing GDPR-compliant AI solutions and now has offices in Berlin, Paris, and Zagreb. Strategic partners including Germany’s leading legal publisher C.H.Beck, the High-Performance Computing specialist Northern Data, Germany’s largest business law firm and co-initiator of the Legal AI Noxtua CMS, as well as Dentons as one of the world’s largest law firms, have invested in the German scale-up as part of its Series B funding round – with a total of € 80.7 million Europe's largest investment round for Legal AI.

About IONOS

IONOS is the leading digitalization partner and trusted cloud enabler for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The company serves over 6.4 million customers and has a presence in 18 markets across Europe and North America, with its services being accessible worldwide. Its web presence and productivity portfolio caters to all digitalisation needs, providing domains, web hosting and website builders with AI capabilities, as well as eCommerce and online marketing tools. The company also offers cloud solutions for businesses looking to move their operations to the cloud as they expand and develop.